Download or read book Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics written by Christina Behme and published by Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book evaluates Noam Chomsky's contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historic justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolution of Chomsky's theorizing, empirical language acquisition work, and computational modeling of language learning. It is shown that calling Chomsky's linguistic Cartesian cannot be historically justified.