For the purposes of the discussion I am thinking of, you only need to know that Chomsky thinks we all have a "language module" built into our brains which give us all the capacity to understand and produce (withing the limits of various disabilities) language at about the same age world-over. While he makes some powerful arguments, cognitive scientists now generally believe that the brain is simply a very sophisticated pattern-recognition device, with amazing powers of mimicry as well. And that this is enough to explain language acquisition and use universally. A good place to start on this subject is https://map.bloomfire.com/posts/562552-the-linguistic-genius-of-babies
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For the purposes of the discussion I am thinking of, you only need to know that Chomsky thinks we all have a "language module" built into our brains which give us all the capacity to understand and produce (withing the limits of various disabilities) language at about the same age world-over. While he makes some powerful arguments, cognitive scientists now generally believe that the brain is simply a very sophisticated pattern-recognition device, with amazing powers of mimicry as well. And that this is enough to explain language acquisition and use universally. A good place to start on this subject is https://map.bloomfire.com/posts/562552-the-linguistic-genius-of-babies