Interesting discussion. We seem to be confusing a few mthodologies though (yeah my obsession). Some of you take the hard-science biological perspective, while others lean towards more the view of language as a cultural or even logical phenomenon.
This was also something Chomsky had problems with. He hoped to discover the biological foundations of language a priori through the analysis of linguistic forms - just like the benzene ring was first dreamt about before its existence got verified in empirical research. But then Chomsky was heavily criticised for missing out on so many cultural aspects of language that he reshaped his theories a few times, then gave up linguistics altogether and took to preaching his socialist views in Latin American countries :).
As it is all neurolinguistic explanations of language acquisition are highly speculative. But such fuzziness is typical of all psychological "reality" isn't it?
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