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In the same vein, professor of linguistics Nicholas Evans and professor of psycholinguistics Stephen C. Levinson observe that Chomsky’s notion of a Universal Grammar has been mistaken for a set of substantial research findings about what all languages have in common, while, it is, "in fact," the programmatic label for "whatever it turns out to be that all children bring to learning a language." For substantial findings about universals across languages, they argue, one must turn to the field of linguistic typology, which bears a "bewildering range of diverse languages" and in which "generalizations are really quite hard to extract." Chomsky’s actual views, combining, as they claim, philosophical and mathematical approaches to structure with claims about the innate endowment for language, have been "hugely influential in the cognitive sciences.: 430