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Jackson Lears: On Chomsky, 4 May 2017
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky.
MIT, 215 pp., £18.95, February 2016,978 0 262 03424 1 Show More
by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky.
MIT, 215 pp., £18.95, February 2016,
What Kind of Creatures Are We?
by Noam Chomsky.
Columbia, 167 pp., £17, January 2016,978 0 231 17596 8 Show More
by Noam Chomsky.
Columbia, 167 pp., £17, January 2016,
Who Rules the World?
by Noam Chomsky.
Hamish Hamilton, 307 pp., £18.99, May 2016,978 0 241 18943 6 Show More
by Noam Chomsky.
Hamish Hamilton, 307 pp., £18.99, May 2016,
Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals
by Neil Smith and Nicholas Allott.
Cambridge, 461 pp., £18.99, January 2016,978 1 107 44267 2 Show More
by Neil Smith and Nicholas Allott.
Cambridge, 461 pp., £18.99, January 2016,
“... English’), though understandable, are nonetheless ‘in some way bad’, as Neil Smith and Nicholas Allott put it in their study of Chomsky, and that the ability to sense this badness is innate. Another piece of evidence for innateness, on the Chomskyan view, is the ease with which children learn their first language, contrasted with the ... ”