"For instance, a young child acquiring a language is developing — unconsciously, automatically and speedily from minuscule data — a grammar, a stupendously soph

"For instance, a young child acquiring a language is developing — unconsciously, automatically and speedily from minuscule data — a grammar, a stupendously sophisticated system of logical principles and parameters. " LOL, this seems completely wrong to me. I think Chomsky's idea is that humans have some kind of 'grammar engine' that just needs configuring from 'miniscule data' aka many years of listening and practice speaking. No doubt humans have some optimized areas for language, but I doubt it's anything so formal.