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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: What's innate? (Was Re: Artificial Neural Networks and Cognition
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In article <D3n9IJ.GBz@hpl.hp.com> curry@hpl.hp.com (Bo Curry) writes:

>But the important point about the Universal Grammar is that it is
>*universal*. This is an observation. If Arabian nomads learned
>White Christmas myths at an early age, then we might well begin
>to suspect genetic influences.

I'd like to see a concise list of, say, a dozen such rules.  Then we
could discuss in detail whether they could be side effects of some
non-linguistic constraint, say, on knowledge representation or on some
machinery involved in making serial conversions from one KR to
another.

In other words, we should consider the idea that even if UG were
Universal, it might still not be directly related to Grammar.

