It is arguable that the kids do this by tailoring Chomsky menus during the
high-plasticity phases of acquisition.
----- End of forwarded message from Damien Broderick -----
By a "Chomsky menu", do you mean a set of recursive substitution rules
(of the form "noun" -> "noun phrase") which go together to define a
grammar?
-mitch
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