What started as purely linguistic research ... has led, through involvement in political causes and an identification with an older philosophic tradition, to no less than an attempt to formulate an overall theory of man. The roots of this are manifest in the linguistic theory ... The discovery of cognitive structures common to the human race but only to humans (species specific), leads quite easily to thinking of unalienable human attributes.
—Edward Marcotte on the significance of Chomsky's linguistic theory[1]
The basis of Noam Chomsky's linguistic theory lies in biolinguistics, the linguistic school that holds that the principles underpinning the structure of language are biologically preset in the human mind and hence genetically inherited.[2] He argues that all humans share the same underlying linguistic structure, irrespective of sociocultural differences.[3] In adopting this position Chomsky rejects the radical behaviorist psychology of B. F. Skinner, who viewed speech, thought, and all behavior as a completely learned product of the interactions between organisms and their environments. Accordingly, Chomsky argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species.[4][5] Chomsky's nativist, internalist view of language is consistent with the philosophical school of "rationalism" and contrasts with the anti-nativist, externalist view of language consistent with the philosophical school of "empiricism",[6] which contends that all knowledge, including language, comes from external stimuli.[1]
^ abBaughman et al. 2006.
^Lyons 1978, p. 4; McGilvray 2014, pp. 2–3.
^Lyons 1978, p. 7.
^Lyons 1978, p. 6; McGilvray 2014, pp. 2–3.
^Brain From Top To Bottom.
^McGilvray 2014, p. 11.
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