Computational ('connectionist') models if used correctly could not only formulate better surface forms, but reveal more of the syntactic architecture even symbolic architecture underlying. He quotes Marcus well:pic.twitter.com/2QkTeV0qFY
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Innate language skills clearly exist, though. False dichotomy. There are language specialized regions in the brain, there are no cultures without language, etc.
Why does “innate general language skill” have to imply that syntax is all there is to it?
I don't know. This is where I disagree with Chomsky. I think it's bc like Feynman & all sane souls he despises philosophy. While syntax can be and was built up at his bidding into a marvellous pseudo-computatjonal logic edifice, semantics is mushy and gets philosophical fast.
Welcome to crazytown. Everyone seems to disagree too much in linguistics. I guess it's because like economics it's a) very hard to know what the true science base is (conventionally the 'lab' of linguistics is the utterances of a native speaker!), b) impossible to truly test.
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