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An interesting article on a possible counter-example: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04
by ecdavis 7y ago
An interesting article on a possible counter-example: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interprete...
- eindiran 7y agoThis is a widely cited counter-example, but I think most linguists think the case is closed regarding whether this is actually a counter-example to the Chomskyian program. Andrew Nevins and David Pesetsky have an extremely convincing rebuttal of Everett's claim. http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/s07/myths/nevinsEtAl07.pdf http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/s07/myths/nevi... https://www.academia.edu/3112859/Evidence_and_argumentation_A_reply_to_Everett_2009_ https://www.academia.edu/3112859/Evidence_and_argumentation_...
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- aasasd 7y agoIn ‘The Language Instinct,’ it's explained why Chomskian mental grammar is likely to be universal, despite isolated counter-examples: pidgin dialects have crappy grammar and are bad at recursion, but children who begin by learning a pidgin from adults, soon develop it into a creole with full-fledged grammar that has all expected features. This happens even when the children speak no other language, e.g. deaf children who learned pieces of a sign language from hearing adults.