Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the StimulusISBN: 978-1-4051-8784-8
Hardcover
264 pages
January 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 mechanisms
- Focuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural languages, considered from the perspective of several learning theoretic models
- The only current book length study of arguments for the poverty of the stimulus which focuses on the computational learning theoretic aspects of the problem