Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

1. Introduction: Nativism in Linguistic Theory

2. Clarifying the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus

3. The Stimulus: Determining the Nature of Primary Linguistic Data

4. Learning in the Limit: The Gold Paradigm

5. Probabilistic Learning Theory for Language Acquisition

6. A Formal Model of Indirect Negative Evidence

7. Computational Complexity and Efficient Learning

8. Positive Results in Efficient Learning

9. Grammar Induction through Implemented Machine Learning

10. Parameters in Linguistic Theory and Probabilistic Language Models

11. A Brief Look at Some Biological and Psychological Evidence

12. Conclusion

References

Author Index

Subject Index