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Chomsky didn't claim that all grammars obey the same word order

I didn't get the sense that the article was saying he said that. It does seem pretty clear from the article that the research suggests that the Generative theory is wrong.

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I don't get the impression that it's refuting the generative grammar theory as a whole, though, just the assertion by (many? most?) generative linguists that grammars are governed by a set of innate constraints. Granted, I'm not familiar with how much of the basis for acceptance of generative grammar theory hangs on the concept of a universal grammar.

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