.@aeonmag Something that's false isn't necessarily "a myth." And myths aren't necessarily false. Wrong word.
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@aeonmag Can anyone w expertise analyze Vyvyan Evans's refuting of#Chomsky's#languageinstinct? Author may be misrepresenting Chomsky. -
@JeffreyGuterman@aeonmag See my 1979 article "Crisis in Linguistic Inquiry" came to same conclusions as Evans does in 2014.#linguistics - 4 more replies
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@aeonmag Chomsky’s idea dominated science of language. It turns out to be a myth. http://ow.ly/FjcDe#linguisticsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Chomsky’s idea dominated the science of language for 4 decades.It turns out a myth.
@aeonmag http://ow.ly/FjcDe#longreads#linguistics”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Imkiddoc there's a response here: http://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-verdict-is-in-regarding-evans-book.html?m=1 … It ain't pretty. But David Adger's response in the comments is helpful!
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