>However, he is IMHO pretty wrong in thinking that this latent structure can't be learned (e.g. inferring a probabilistic context-free grammar).
Please correct me if I'm wrong but your representation of Chomsky's thesis seems to be the opposite of what it is.
Chomsky says that the ability to learn a language is innate - you don't need to go to school to do it, nor do you need to learn grammar rules.
You say that Chomsky says that the "latent structure in language" cant be learned and if my representation is correct, then yours is way off and seems partisan.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but your representation of Chomsky's thesis seems to be the opposite of what it is.
Chomsky says that the ability to learn a language is innate - you don't need to go to school to do it, nor do you need to learn grammar rules.
You say that Chomsky says that the "latent structure in language" cant be learned and if my representation is correct, then yours is way off and seems partisan.