[mburbank]

The core idea, and it's a pretty important one, is that the STRUCTURE of language is universal in humans and that it is hard wired into the brain.

You suck your thumb in the womb without being taught, because sucking is a basic survival trait you as a mamal will need in order to survive. Chomsky posits that the framework on which we hang laguage is hard wired into the brain and that only the form language takes (ie. different sounds and their arrangment) are learned.

The argument is that language is as basic and deffinitive to humans as sucking is to mamals.

Here's a brief list of things Vince has offered as being unworthy;
Linguistics
Museums
Gender studies


It's a short list, but it's a really good start.