chomsky

It's not my fault that Chomsky led a generation of linguists down so many blind alleys for decades.

As Chomsky says, never listen to what the US says, always look at their actions.

You (like a lot of people here) are just repeating the predictable things people say when Chomsky comes up that they probably overheard once.

Most linguists prior to Chomsky were not really committed to behaviorist psychology, just happy to borrow it for use against the prevailing scientific racism.

If I understand the Chomsky idea correctly, we are born with structures in our brain ready to accept a new language.

You could also say that Noam Chomsky is not rational.

But then, Chomsky was not trying to describe the psychological reality of language use and language production, but rather articulate a formal system that could represent the structure of carefully curated and constructed phrases.

(This is all from chomsky's x-bar theory [0], which dates back to the 60s.

>> Chomsky compares the approach to a statistical model of insect behavior.

I wonder why Chomsky drew the distinction.

Which has no significant historical basis--Noam Chomsky is a guy and I don't have to agree with him, even when he's not being misquoted--but is alarmingly popular in certain dank corners of the internet.

It's certainly true that I've read more of Chomsky himself than the immense literature he spawned; and most of my reading of the generativist literature is at its messy edges where those explanations tend to be pretty unconvincing.

If one says that humans have built in brain wiring for "grammar" (Chomsky[2]) to understand nouns, verbs, and recursive clauses...

For some reason now I'm reminded of something Chomsky wrote about "expanding the floor of the cage" [1].

To borrow the words of Chomsky, "we don't need more heros, what we we need are good ideas." Or to take it further perhaps heros with ideas.

If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise." - Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent But of course, you probably already do understand this and are just willfully ignorant.

Linguistics as a field is in a post-Chomsky hangover and none-too-happy to celebrate the man that put them there.

Now that he's not actively working to maintain it, Chomsky's academic reputation has suffered substantially and the field is largely trying to move on.

There are many smart people out there who are interested in other people's rights, for example, Noam Chomsky.