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associated with the guy
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who we met when we talked about behaviorism
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who wrote A Review of Verbal Behavior, the linguist Noam Chomsky.
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And Chomsky makes this radical claim.
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And this is
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that we shouldn't view language learning as learning at all.
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Instead, we should view it
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as something similar to growth.
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So he says,
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no one would take seriously the proposal that a human organism
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learns through experience to have arms rather than wings,
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or that the basic structure of particular organs