One small point to add: Chomksy's interest has been in identifying the abstract characteristics of the language center of the human brain, which, for various reasons, does not seem likely to work like a Markov model.
Analogously, one could look at the inputs and outputs of the human heart and potentially imagine a variety of physical structures that would explain them, and some of those physical structures would be biologically real/plausible and others would not.
Things like constraints on working memory, exposure to input, and cross-language studies have informed the constraints that Chomsky has proposed to determine what kind of model would best capture the essential quality of the brain system.
One small point to add: Chomksy's interest has been in identifying the abstract characteristics of the language center of the human brain, which, for various reasons, does not seem likely to work like a Markov model.
Analogously, one could look at the inputs and outputs of the human heart and potentially imagine a variety of physical structures that would explain them, and some of those physical structures would be biologically real/plausible and others would not.
Things like constraints on working memory, exposure to input, and cross-language studies have informed the constraints that Chomsky has proposed to determine what kind of model would best capture the essential quality of the brain system.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Language-Nature-Origins-Con...