Talk:Language complexity

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Lede needs NPOV

Nice article. I suggest that the lede could be made a little bit more neutral. Right now it says

...that all human languages are equally complex ... is ... an implication of Chomskian linguistics, which postulates that all human languages are underlyingly the same. However, there is no objective reason to believe this is true, and much reason to believe it is not.

I think that a Chomskian would find that last sentence to be POV. Maybe you could say there is

no empirical support for that theoretical prediction, and there is empirical evidence to the contrary.

Duoduoduo (talk) 19:55, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]