Languages are much more diverse in structure than cognitive scientists generally appreciate. A widespread assumption among cognitive scientists, growing out of the generative tradition in linguistics, is that all languages are English-like but with different sound systems and vocabularies. The true picture is very different: languages differ so fundamentally from one another at every level of description (sound, grammar, lexicon, meaning) that it is very hard to find any single structural property they share. The claims of Universal Grammar, we argue here, are either empirically false, unfalsifiable, or misleading in that they refer to tendencies rather than strict universals.
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Unf. Suck my balls, UG…I NEVER LIKED YOU.
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I’m not going to argue the opposite here, even though I do think precisely the opposite of this, but rather mention one...
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YES SOME OTHER NONBELIEVERS IN UG srsly in my syntax class I felt so marginalized because it was taught from the...
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