Chomsky's computational approach to LA (and thus, to HN) debunked?

[ish mailian]

Thanks, man. Actually not a surprised that Wolfe would write on this
and do a good job of it.

ESSAY — From the August 2016 issue

The Origins of Speech

In the beginning was Chomsky

By Tom Wolfe

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Michel <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:
> Was an excellent article on this in Harper's, I think last or current month,
> written by -surprise, surprise- Tom Wolfe.
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> Michel
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> On 2016-09-12 13:59, Keith Davis wrote:
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>> That's a great quote, and could easily be applied in lots of areas...
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>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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>>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 7:08 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> As Chomsky was developing his computational theories, he was
>>> simultaneously proposing that they were rooted in human biology. In
>>> the second half of the 20th century, it was becoming ever clearer that
>>> our unique evolutionary history was responsible for many aspects of
>>> our unique human psychology, and so the theory resonated on that level
>>> as well. His universal grammar was put forward as an innate component
>>> of the human mind—and it promised to reveal the deep biological
>>> underpinnings of the world’s 6,000-plus human languages. The most
>>> powerful, not to mention the most beautiful, theories in science
>>> reveal hidden unity underneath surface diversity, and so this theory
>>> held immediate appeal.
>>>
>>> But evidence has overtaken Chomsky’s theory, which has been inching
>>> toward a slow death for years. It is dying so slowly because, as
>>> physicist Max Planck once noted, older scholars tend to hang on to the
>>> old ways: “Science progresses one funeral at a time.”
>>>
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>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/
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