Comment by suddenlybananas
14 days ago
It's not an either/or. The fact any human language is learnable by any human and not by, say, chimpanzees needs explaining.
Chomsky also talks about these kind of things in detail in Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch (2002) where they describe them as "third factors" in language acquisition.
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