the mind, Chomsky argued, is universal and shared with all other beings. However, the attained state is the one to which we move from our exposure to our environment and its primary linguistic data. The initial state encompasses a universal grammar, a limited number of interactive principles which allow for some measure of variation within a certain range. The differences in human languages and the varieties of speech of explained according to Chomsky by the different vocabularies and parameter settings of these universal principles which represent the attained states of language faculty in different individuals. Thus, to Chomsky, ala Kant, the individual is free to a degree when it comes to the language faculty but that faculty is subjected to the restraints of the primary linguistic data to which an individual is exposed, “Chomsky’s work, bit within linguistics proper as well as its history, from a Kantian perspective, is to provide a picture of the rational agent who
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