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>>mef+(OP)
I have a degree in linguistics. We were taught Chomsky’s theories of linguistics, but also taught that they were not true. (I don’t want to say what university it was since this was 25 years ago and for all I know that linguistics department no longer teaches against Chomsky). The end result is I don’t take anything Chomsky says seriously. So, it is difficult for me to engage with Chomsky’s ideas.

>>irrati+y71
I don't have a degree in linguistics, but I took a few classes about 15 years ago, and Chomsky's works were basically treated as gospel. Although my university's linguistics faculty included several of his former graduate students, so maybe there's a bias factor. In any case, it reminds me of an SMBC comic about how math and science advance over time [1]

[1] https://smbc-wiki.com/index.php/How-math-works

>>Calava+s91
Linguistics has been largely subsumed by CS (LLM, speech synthesis, translation). It's not an empirical science or social science and most of its theories are not falsifiable.

But generally speaking Chomsky's ideas, and in particular, the Universal Grammar are no longer in vogue.