[lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background

[ravi]

On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:15 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> "Isn't the fundamental assumption here that kids learn to speak in  
> grammatically correct sentences?"
>
> Yes, you might fault that, but children make grammatical mistakes by  
> misapplying grammatical rules. My daughter explained to me the other  
> day that she pulled her ice cream away from a pigeon because he  
> "mightened of eatened it". She was misapplying a rule of tense,  
> adding too many endings.

These sort of mistakes are not relevant to Chomskyian Universal  
Grammar. Chris Doss provided an example of what sort of sentence when  
uttered would contradict the assumption of an innate universal grammar  
faculty.

	--ravi