What is the current take on Chomsky's 'language acquisition is hard-wired into

What is the current take on Chomsky's 'language acquisition is hard-wired into

What is the current take on Chomsky's 'language acquisition is hard-wired into the brain' theory? I remember reading ten years or so ago that a scientist had isolated a gene that led to kids having trouble learning to speak normally (I have no citation, unfortunately). Would this be proof that Chomsky was right?

Read another response by Richard Heck, Gabriel Segal
Read another response about Language
Print