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Chomsky, Wolfe and me

28 mins | May 7, 2020
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Daniel Everett: why language is not everything that Noam Chomsky said it is. Professor and author, Daniel Everett, challenged renowned American linguistic Noam Chomsky’s ideas about language and unleashed a decade of debate and ridicule. Was he wrong, though? In this piece for Aeon, he explores the controversy that came from his comments.

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