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  • Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings. -- Noam Chomsky
  • If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa. -- Noam Chomsky
  • It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. -- Noam Chomsky
  • As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. -- Noam Chomsky
  • You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English. -- Noam Chomsky
  • When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. -- Noam Chomsky
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