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To: wideawake

Actually -- in the speech/language/hearing world Chomsky's stuff is still discussed/debated regularly. There are a number of adherents to his beliefs and a number who believe that parts of his work is accurate when combined with other's work.

Whoa, did that make sense? *rereads*

It's really hard for me to sit and class and hear about him *laugh* It's a constant thing though. *shrug* But what I've seen at the University level is not a wholesale discounting of his linguistics work, but rather an association of Chomsky with the "language acquisition device."

More later, I'm tired :) hehe


15 posted on 09/01/2006 7:11:44 AM PDT by twinzmommy
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To: twinzmommy
Actually -- in the speech/language/hearing world Chomsky's stuff is still discussed/debated regularly.

Absolutely. But I understand that few professors of linguistics would describe themselves as "Chomskians" and even those that use his work use it piecemeal, in a critical fashion.

17 posted on 09/01/2006 7:30:54 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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