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Default Re: Deficiencies in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

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Originally Posted by alienvoord View Post
I don't know what you mean. I don't see how Gentner's false conclusion has any bearing on whether Chomsky's conclusions are false or not.

But you might be interested to know that some linguists reject Gentner's conclusion because, in their opinion, "Recursion is not the unique core property of the human language faculty anyway."
I didn't offer recursion as a theory; Chomsky did, or some believe he did.
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