Reading for M 9/27: Chomsky 1988 excerpts

Your reading for Monday, 9/27 consist of several excerpts from the following book (as usual, the reading can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website):

Chomsky, Noam. 1988. Language and Politics.  (Carlos P. Otero, ed.) Montreal: Black Rose Books.

In fact, the title of the book is rather misleading:  it is a collection of interviews that Chomsky has given over the years, covering a wide range of topics (both linguistic and political).  All of the excerpts that you will read have to do with his views concerning children’s capacities for learning language, and why some aspects of this capacity must be innate.