Notes on Chomsky Linguistics

Language and the Mind Revisited

July 2003, https://youtu.be/yJp1-Od67-U

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the biolinguistic approach to human language

human language is a property of the human organism, mostly of the brain.

human language is a specific biological system,

human language is a component of human biology, on a par with mammalian vision, or insect navigation, or other systems for which the best theories attribute computational capacities of some kind, sometimes informally called “rule following”

NOT language: bee communication, communication among apes, mathematics, music