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Using "I" language is all about putting the burden of responsibility on yourself.
Is language first and foremost an artifact of culture?
Is language a covering up of something unspeakable?
Is language primarily an artifact of culture, or is it largely determined by human biology?
The way in which I-languages are 'intensional' for Chomsky needs a little explication.
I-languages are properties of the minds of individuals who know them.
The distinction he draws between I-languages and E-languages is another incarnation of something like the same contrast.
Dreams include visual scenes, each comprised of representational images, tied together into narrative forms utilizing internal thought and vision formats (I-languages and grammar).
To sum up, then, statements about I-languages are 'statements about the structures of the brain formulated at a certain level of abstraction from mechanisms'.
In short, there is no reason why Chomsky's I-languages could not be innately constrained, but (once acquired) cognitively and developmentally constraining.
The idea is that two individuals can know (or have, or use) different I-languages that generate exactly the same strings of words, and even give them exactly the same structures.
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