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Four Ways from Universal to Particular: How Chomsky is Not Selectionist

October 16, 2014 by admin

Chomsky’s mechanism (and embryonic development) are significantly different from the selectionist mechanisms of biological evolution or the immune system. Surprisingly, there is a very abstract way using two dual mathematical logics to make the distinction between genuinely selectionist mechanisms and what are better called “generative” mechanisms. This note outlines that distinction.

Filed Under: Math Blog, Mathematics Tagged With: Chomsky, generative, generative grammar, instructionist, language acquisition faculty, Principles and Parameters, selectionist, Universal Grammar, universal selectionism

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