And Chomsky's argument is complicated and interesting, but the main sort of argument he had to make is goes like this.
乔姆斯基的论据很复杂,也很有意思,但他所提出的主要论据是这样的。
It could be Martin King, it could be Abraham J. Heschel, it could be Noam Chomsky.
可以是马丁路德金,可以是赫舍尔,也可以是乔姆斯基。
So, you might learn to play baseball, you might learn about the American Civil War, but if Chomsky is right you didn't learn to speak English.
因此,你可能学会打棒球,学到关于美国内战的知识,但如果乔姆斯基是对的,那么说英语并不是习得的
More generally, Chomsky suggests that the law of effect when applied to humans is either trivially true, trivially or uninterestingly true, or scientifically robust and obviously false.
更一般的来讲,乔姆斯基认为应用在人类身上的效果律,要么是无效且毫无意义的正确假说,要么就是稳定且明显的错误假说。
On the other hand, there is considerable evidence that the development of these language skills, in some way, is similar to growth in the way that Chomsky suggests.
另一方面,有大量证据表明,这些语言技能的发展,在某些方面,与乔姆斯基所提出的发展方式相类似
What Skinner--What Chomsky is raising here is the concern of unfalsifiablity.
乔姆斯基在这里提出了,对不可证伪性的质疑。
Well, Chomsky says the problem is not that that's wrong.
乔姆斯基认为,问题并不在于这些观点是错误的。
Some studies have, motivated by Chomsky's work in expressed sorry, motivated by Chomsky's critique of Skinner's Verbal Behavior, have asked even in -- "What if we just looked at children within the United States?
受到乔姆斯基,《斯金纳述评》的启发,一些研究甚至询问道,"要是我们只研究美国儿童又会怎样呢"
Well, there's a radical claim about the origin of language associated with the guy who we met when we talked about behaviorism who wrote A Review of Verbal Behavior, the linguist Noam Chomsky.
关于语言的起源,语言学家诺姆·乔姆斯基,提出了一个激进的观点,我们曾在讲述行为主义时提到过,他写过篇叫《述评》的论文
And Chomsky makes this radical claim.
乔姆斯基提出了这个激进的观点
An alternative, though, is that there's separate modules, and this is a view developed, again, by Noam Chomsky, and also by the philosopher of mind Jerry Fodor, who claimed that the whole idea of a child developing as a single story is mistaken.
而另一种观点则认为是存在独立模块的,这个观点还是诺姆·乔姆斯基提出的,心灵哲学家杰瑞·福多尔,也同样提出过类似观点,这个观点认为,将儿童发展单独看待的整个观念,都是错误的
Finally, the other reading you're going to do section of the course is Chomsky's classic article, his "Review of Verbal Behavior."
最后,你们在学习这一章节时,需要阅读的另一篇文章,for,this,part—,是乔姆斯基的一篇经典文章,叫做《述评》
A Review of B. F. Skinner Chomsky is one of the most prominent intellectuals alive.
s,Verbal,Behavior,乔姆斯基是如今仍然在世的,最杰出的学者之一。
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