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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Linguistic_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Linguistic_theory >The basis of Chomsky's linguistic th
by trhway 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Linguistic_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Linguistic_theory
>The basis of Chomsky's linguistic theory lies in biolinguistics, the linguistic school that holds that the principles underpinning the structure of language are biologically preset in the human mind and hence genetically inherited.[150] As such he argues that all humans share the same underlying linguistic structure, irrespective of sociocultural differences.[151] In adopting this position Chomsky rejects the radical behaviorist psychology of B. F. Skinner, who viewed behavior (including talking and thinking) as a completely learned product of the interactions between organisms and their environments.
that reminds a similar theory that stone axe making is a result of genetic transfer (like 'bird song') and not social transfer
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066817/ . Curiously if one replaces "axe" with "language" in the article it would look a lot similar as how one would go proving Chomsky linguistic theory.