poverty of the stimulus

by dmd (1.1 mon)

Sat Oct 07 2000 at 6:33:33

What kinds of knowledge underlie the use of language and how is this knowledge acquired? Linguists equate knowing a language with knowing a grammar. Classic "poverty of the stimulus" arguments suggest that grammar identification is an intractable inductive problem and that acquisition is possible only because children possess innate knowledge of grammatical structure.

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argument	innate	poverty of speech	linguist
language acquisition	Universal Grammar	Analogy as the Core of Cognition	Language Acquisition Device
Language	grammar	telepathy	Intractable
child	acquisition	Plato's Immortality of the Soul	Ludovico Technique
The rice and ketchup entree	Is language innate or learned?	Knowledge	I-language
Linguistics	folk psychology

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