The Ontological Gap Between Human and Artificial Language Emergence in Light of Judgemental Philosophy and LAD Theory

This paper investigates the essential difference between the language emergence capabilities of humans and LLMs by structurally reinterpreting Noam Chomsky’s theory of the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) through the framework of Judgemental Philosophy (JP)—namely the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF), Resonance Drive (RD), Judgemental Triad (JT), and Resonance (R). While humans possess an innate judgemental structure that enables them to generate language from a pre-linguistic state through meaning-driven resonance, LLMs remain confined to the statistical simulation of language based on externally given data. This simulation lacks the ontological structure for the internal generation and return of meaning. The paper argues that human language emergence is not merely the activation of formal syntactic rules but the expression of an ontological resonance structure—a dynamic return of meaning that underlies the creative and context-sensitive nature of human language. In contrast, LLMs simulate structure without resonance, thereby revealing a fundamental ontological gap between symbolic calculation and meaning-bearing judgement.