Very well articulated. One small point to add: Chomksy's interest has been in identifying the abstract characteristics of the language center of the human brai

Very well articulated. One small point to add: Chomksy's interest has been in identifying the abstract characteristics of the language center of the human brain, which, for various reasons, does not seem likely to work like a Markov model. Analogously, one could look at the inputs and outputs of the human heart and potentially imagine a variety of physical structures that would explain them, and some of those physical structures would be biologically real/plausible and others would not. Things like constraints on working memory, exposure to input, and cross-language studies have informed the constraints that Chomsky has proposed to determine what kind of model would best capture the essential quality of the brain system. link: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Language-Nature-Origins-Convergence/dp/0275917614 https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Language-Nature-Origins-Con...