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Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

By Shalom Lappin , Alexander Clark

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2011
ISBN
1405187840
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3606836 bytes)
Pages
259\259
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues. Critically examines the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus - the theory that the linguistic input which children receive is insufficient to explain the rich and rapid development of their knowledge of their first language(s) through general learning mechanismsFocuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural languages, considered from the perspective of several learning theoretic modelsThe only current book length study of arguments for the poverty of the stimulus which focuses on the computational learning theoretic aspects of the problem

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