Talk:Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate

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Apologies for the state of this article at this point in time. Many subsections are little more than stubs. The aim has been to focus on setting up a pretty straightforward layout and document lots of sources. This is very frustrating for an interested reader, however, it does lots of the important work for an editor wanting to contribute to the article. If you are an interested reader, please consider borrowing the book from a library and writing up what you read! Even writing up one chapter would be great, someone else will eventually come along and do another chapter for us. Cheers. Alastair Haines (talk) 00:05, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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David Lightfoot

I think that David Lightfoot is linked to the wrong "David Lightfoot" - unless of course this article is making some very subtle point about linguistic theorizing that I am not sufficiently intelligent to discern. The 'right' David Lightfoot does not appear to be the subject of an article on Wikipedia. Jomeara421 (talk) 04:36, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Jo. We have him now. National Science Foundation assistant director Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. Much more informative is his bibliography. What is it they say about the Swiss, efficiency isn't it? Cheers. Alastair Haines (talk) 12:33, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

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Article in very poor condition

The quality of this article is very poor. It seems an attempt to list each chapter, with Chomsky's point followed by Sampsons' counterpoint (a clumsy attempt in itself -- the article should summarize the whole book), but then falls short of this. Most chapters are stubs. There is an unexplained conversation between a Russian and a Norwegian, and it's not clear what it's supposed to illustrate. This article really needs rewriting into something sensical. I'm not familiar with this book (though I'm reading Pinker's book), so I cannot do it myself. 201.231.81.53 (talk) 19:55, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

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