Chomsky started his linguistic research with an attack on empiricism (behaviorism) based on rationalism. Chomsky (2010; 2011) assumes UG consists of external and internal Merge. However, this UG, he assumes, developed suddenly through the process of mutation(s), which is empiricism in the sense that he comes to deny the boundary of species. The case of Archaeopteryx is a disaster to Chomsky’s assumption of the evolution across the species in that the case of Archaeopteryx is not the evidence of the species-crossing evolution. To explain language acquisition(growth), especially in feral children, he must have assumed two conflicting mutation(s) about UG, individual, and at the same time group mutation(s). Chomsky (2010: 19) assumed individual mutation, and Chomsky (2010: 20), contradictory to his former statement, assumed group mutation(s). I rather propose, to explain language, instead of Chomsky’s assumptions, Behe’s (1996:39) irreducible complexity and Dembski’s (1999:47) specified complexity based on intelligent design. Language is just a good example of irreducible complexity and specified complexity, showing the working together of speech anatomy and Chomsky’s internal system, which together consist of language faculty (the internal system, the sensory motor system, and externalization).
목차
I. Introduction: Chomsky’s Attack of Empiricism(Behaviorism), and Claim of Species-specificity of language (Rationalism) II. Chomsky’s Conflicts with Himself 1. Chomsky’s Generative Grammar, Recent Minimalism (Rationalism) 2. Chomsky’s Evolution of Language (Empiricism) 3. The Problems in Chomsky’s Evolution Minimalism 4. The Case of Archaeopteryx: No Evolution Crossing Over Species 5. Intelligent Design III. Conclusion Works Cited Abstract
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]