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by notjtrig 896 days ago
Noam Chomsky famously discovered that the building blocks of language are preloaded into the human mind, children use a hypothetical tool called the Language Acquisition Device to quickly learn grammar even with little input. I wonder is this a genetic device or something of a quantum nature?
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> Noam Chomsky famously discovered that the building blocks of language are preloaded into the human mind,

“Discovered” seems to misrepresent the evidentiary basis for Chomsky’s Universal Grammar.