chomsky.info : The Noam Chomsky Website
www.chomsky.info/
Example: The Human Genome
http://www.indiana.edu/~clcl/Q550_WWW/Masheen_Learnin.pdf• In 2001, we cracked the human genome (well, Craig
Venter’s genome at least)
• How has this great discovery influenced cognitive
theory? Can it?
Chomsky: "Every biologist just assumes that the basic character
of the circulatory system is an expression of genes. For the
same reason, we have to assume that all language is a basic
expression of the genes"
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