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Well in this case it's not so much that Chomsky's theory has been disproven simply by the fact that his evidence has been gathered sloppily as much as the evidence that others have found would seem to actively disprove it. And this is where my great problem with Chomsky lies. His indefensible assum...

Kirk: but the first 'disagreement' there isn't linguistic, but a matter of biological trivia. Well, I'm sure it's significant to biologists and neurologists and brain surgeons and what have you, but I don't see what it has to do with linguistics. My lexicon could be processed by the same part of my...

It's funny this is coming up now because I just took a class on child language acquision which almost entirely dealt with the fierce debate between cognitivists and Chomskyans (of course in this class in the context of how people acquire language but also in the general sense of how language is proc...