Monday, October 1, 2007

Blomis #4 -- Innateness Again

I posted a challenge recently to The Innateness Hypothesis (aka Universal Grammar) as discussed in Juan Uriagereka's article on language evolution. Mark Liberman over at Language Log makes a similar challenge with far greater detail and authority than I could.
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