  Prof. Robert Berwick's abstract for his forthcoming invited talk at the
ACL2016 workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning
revives an ancient debate. Entitled "Why take a chance?", Berwick seems to
refer implicitly to Chomsky's critique of the statistical approach of Harris as
well as the currently dominant paradigms in CoNLL.
  Berwick avoids Chomsky's use of "innate" but states that "the debate over the
existence of sophisticated mental grammars was settled with Chomsky's Logical
Structure of Linguistic Theory (1957/1975)", acknowledging that "this debate
has often been revived".
  This paper agrees with the view that this debate has long since been settled,
but with the opposite outcome! Given the embers have not yet died away, and the
questions remain fundamental, perhaps it is appropriate to refuel the debate,
so I would like to join Bob in throwing fuel on this fire by reviewing the
evidence against the Chomskian position!
