Parole/performance ALWAYS
>>underdetermines what our underlying langue/competence is.
>
>                No argument there. But there is still interaction between
>               spoken language and knowledge of language in a growing
>                child (ontologically) and in a growing people
(phylogenetically)

          Let me try once more attending to my morphemes :-)

                Spoken language and language "competence"
                are interactive not only for the child
                learning language (ontogenetically)
                but also for a language-speaking
                species (phylogenetically)



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