ed that there was no "innateness hypothesis", and advanced the opinion that there were only "specific hypotheses about the innate resources of the mind, in particular its language faculty" (66). Further, he declared, this faculty may be broken down into two components: 1) The cognitive system that stores the information; and 2) The performance system that makes use of the information (117).
Currently, in further defense of the language faculty, Chomsky (2001), maintains that "lots of people reject the proposal. . .but nobody ever answers them" (50). He contends that the language organ is analogous to the visual system (Chomsky 3) in its function and that one of the most elementary properties of this system is the "discrete infinity" of speech and syntax (51-2). In other words, sentences are discrete strings of words, such as 6 or 7 words, but not 6 1/2 words. Sentences may also string together phrases and embed other phrases within each other, so there may be an infi
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