Is chomsky´s generative grammar theory a fake or true:?

Question

Is chomsky´s generative grammar theory a fake or true:?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Theoretical...

Answer 3

At the present state of linguistics and knowledge of the human animal and his curious brain, it would be FAR too early to declare Chomsky right or wrong at this time.

I'm a practical and applied linguist myself with an ability to read 12 languages and speak eight [four are classical and or extinct languages like Latin or classical Hebrew or Aramaic]

There is a point to Chomsky's theory which is important. Regardless of specific differences, there is a core "logic" that underlies all languages and is essentially one and the same logic because the human brain no matter what race is identical in function. This logic is something innate in us, and tied to the linguistic center of the brain.

My own theories lean toward the physiological and evolutionary aspects of linguistics.

Some studies in rare or abnormal psychology has answered some seemingly impossible questions like "If a child is raised totally without the company of another human being or deprived of the knowledge of a language in the crucial first five years of life, will the child EVER learn to speak.

Two cases, one in Thailand and the other in India of feral children, answered in the negative.

If language [a social-evolutionary construct] isn't learned in the first five years, it NEVER will be more than a handful of words.

Languages are created BY man, but the structure of language has a core logic that is NOT created by man. It is Nature that has give it to us in an expansion of the communicative patter of animals and it has an animal origin.

I have also studied and met with a reasearcher who is convinced we are NOT the only creature on the planet with a developed language.  He has worked with Cetaceans and while cannot break their "code" but by computer analysis has determined that it probably is as developed or close to the level of sophistication as our own.

I have written many articles on religion, the harm it does to children, the idiocy of the Tower of Bable story and the practice of Glossolalia or "Speaking in Tongues".

What is it? Do these people speak real languages?

No. It is just random syllables using sounds that the speaker is capable of and you'll NEVER hear them make a rare sound that exists in some language like Hottentot or the Kung! people or the many tones of Cantonese Chinese.

I have recorded [secretly] quite a few examples of speaking in tongues, one that amazed the most [for the stupidity of those who think this is some miracle] was a 20 second bit of pure c**p which could not have conveyed hardly ANY information "d..d.d.d.d.u.d..d..ll...d.d.d.d.lalal.....

That was it.

The "translation" provided by another person who had the corresponding gift of "interpreting tongues" was as follows:

"Thus sayeth the Lord, I have seen you, watched over you and heard your prayers and felt your sorrows. Know that I am the Shepherd that sees all and guards you and will keep my promise of eternal life. I have sent my Son that ye be healed of your diseases and forgiven of your sins.  Fear not, the day is at hand when the Devil and all his wicked agents will be destroyed by Holy Ghost fire from above....."

Latin is known as a compact language which can say MORE in fewer words than most, but NO language is THIS compact that in a few stuttered repeated sounds you get this bit of bullshit.

Also there are other grammatical factors or common endings found in most languages except those that are monosyllabic like Chinese or some others in the Sino-Tibetan group.

German is easy to recognize because of common endings like "-heit", "-en", "-st" and double and triple consonant clusters like "-schw-"

But it is easy to FAKE speaking a language in a society like America where the people can barely speak ONE language and so few have any familiarity with any other language except a few words of Spanish.

No German would be fooled in hearing the following "I sacht vine der eiden manin kan du shlacht der neiner veter blocht"

It would SOUND like German but means NOTHING. Note how I threw in a few "real" german words to make it sound more effective. I just "wrote" in tongues.  Any fool can do it.

Just speak random syllables.

You can pattern it.

Imagine a language [like some Polynesian languages] where you have consonant vowel pairs like Do, La, Re, Fa so you end up with something sounding like

"Falabodibe mano to be a noma te kiki o la na minitobe"

This could fool ANYBODY into thinking I'm speaking Hawaiian or some BS like that when in actuality I said NOTHING.

I tried one of these at a Pentecostal Church and my 30 seconds of BS got a six minute translation informing the church of the speedy return of Christ!

Notice how all the translations are rehashed garbage gotten from the King James Bible or sermons heard via a process known as combinative cryptomnesia.

Now with this in mind, perhaps you see Chomsky in a new light?

Like Freud, many of his theories are important to discuss as they really get the ball in motion.  Some of them, even most of Chomsky may be eventually proven false, but it still doesn't make Chomsky any more than Freud an unimportant innovator in linguistics or the fields that connect with linguistics, paleolinguistics, archeology, anthropology, sociology and psychology [not to mention physics]. Sometimes even a "bad" theory can lead to great developments, since in the process of discrediting it you stumble upon a good theory.

That's science. Don't forget that linguistics is a young science scarcely a 100 years old. Physics is only about 400 years old.

Anthropology also about 100 years old. Psychology no more than 150 years to 200 years old.

These sciences are in their infancy.  It's a trial and error, speculative theories, hypothesis, work, research, argue, debate and over time with honesty and hard work you get to the goal, a basic and sound understanding of the phenomena you are studying and trying to describe.

Idiotic fairy tales like the Tower of Bable story has kept mankind in ignorance of evolutionary linguistics.  Yet the process is so simple that a child could understand it.

Imagine the "Bonto" tribe in Africa.  Due to a war a group leaves the area and becomes separated from the parent tribe and is no longer in contact.  If the language is written and fixed by grammatical study it will change VERY slowly, but if the language like most primitive languages lacks a fixed writing system, then it will change with incredible rapidity and in the course of only 200 years, the two groups of the "Bonto" people will have a hard time understanding each other and in 500 years the languages will be so different that the one will probably not even be aware that the languages are connected. In a thousand to two thousand years of isolation entire morpho-syntactic changes will likely have taken place.

That's how Old Germanic split over time into Old High German and Old Low German, and from the High German came the languages of Sweden, Denmark and Norway and Iceland [almost pure High German and not much different from the speech of the Vikings].  Low German led to Dutch and influenced English which is a polyglot language with the influx of multiple expressions borrowed ["stolen"] from others.  

Old English is no more understandable by the average American or Brit as Latin and hardly recognizable AS English.

With the Norman conquests [Normandy in France] there was a huge influx of French words into English.

That's why we have often pairs of words.

"Cow" comes from French but "Beef" is authentic English [Beoff]

"Freedom" is authentic English, but "Liberty" is French from Latin.

And don't forget words created ex nihilo like the word "Googol" for 10 to the 100 power or computer sprach which is strangely indicative of computer geeks love for junk food with all the Nybbles and Bytes.

Take the computer phrase GIGO which is an acronymn for Garbage In>Garge Out, a law of computer science and the human brain too.

I might coin the term "gigonomics" for the absurd economic practices of Republicans [if someone hasn't already beat me to it]  and if the word gets into print or it becomes popular, given 20 years or less it might pop up in the Dictionary, which leads to the interesting phenom that it is not linguists who settle the score but the lexicographer who is the final authority on just about everything!

Humans make human sounds because of the shape of our mouth, tongue, type of teeth and a pair of vocal cords which unless you are a Tibetan Monk you probably can only speak or sing with just ONE of them.

Cats also have two and can use BOTH at the same time with ease like a Tibetan.

Don't expect a Porpoise to come out saying "Why, hello amigo, what's happening, dude. Come on out, the water is pleasant!"

But here is a mathematical analysis of a 20 second Blue Whale "song"

Xac  Yaabaa  XYaa  XcYc  XcYc  Yaa  YaacaXa"

Notice the repeated patterns which reveals a probable GENUINE language and NOT random noise.

Because of acoustics and the frequency of this "music" the whales can communicate with each other at distances of 100 miles!