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posted by Nicole @ 12:54 PM
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Think the Rochester news buro is leaning on its own horn a little to hard in "Scientists find ability for grammar hardwired into humans?" A blurb in Science from December puts the research in better perspective:
"A study of several deaf people who
improvised a form of sign language to communicate with their families lends weight to what linguist Noam Chomsky first argued in the 1950s: that grammar is innate rather than learned."
Sorry to log a complaint as a first-time visitor to your fine blog, but news bureaus don't usually supply their own skepticism.
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