There is no language instinct (2014)
this article is bad.  chomsky and his ilk have always acknowledged the wide variety of linguistic behavior; that&#x27;s the whole point.  universal grammar is the parameters to be set (what sounds have meaning?  what word order is used?  etc).  learning a language is the setting of those parameters.<p>humans may have linguistic &quot;knowledge&quot; that they&#x27;re born with, they may not...  but this article is beside the point.