My son decided that my grandson must learn French and I must teach him. I haven't spoken French in 40 years so I am busy trying to play catch up. This is really exciting. He is 17 months and it is amazing how much French he knows.
Poverty of Stimulus, my ass! His 1950 paper showed no knowledge of formal logic, and his recent videos show a lack of set theory and machine learning, notably of determining the least general common subsumer. Head feature propagation and local binding within clauses OK. A consistent distinction between complement and adjunct, not really, and certainly only if you require separate lexical entries for intransitive, transitive and ditransitive forms of the same verb (in which case you lose the ontological similarity). I am surprised that Pinker thinks that non-Chomskyites are still in the minority.
My son decided that my grandson must learn French and I must teach him. I haven't spoken French in 40 years so I am busy trying to play catch up. This is really exciting. He is 17 months and it is amazing how much French he knows.
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In case there is confusion, this video clearly shows that there is no Poverty of Stimulus. Why does Chomsky still ague that it exists?
Poverty of Stimulus, my ass! His 1950 paper showed no knowledge of formal logic, and his recent videos show a lack of set theory and machine learning, notably of determining the least general common subsumer.
Head feature propagation and local binding within clauses OK. A consistent distinction between complement and adjunct, not really, and certainly only if you require separate lexical entries for intransitive, transitive and ditransitive forms of the same verb (in which case you lose the ontological similarity). I am surprised that Pinker thinks that non-Chomskyites are still in the minority.