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poverty of the stimulus: a standalone construct

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Child language development

the argument that children's input lacks the evidence needed to learn grammar, so some knowledge must be innate.

In child language development, poverty of the stimulus refers to the argument that children's input lacks the evidence needed to learn grammar, so some knowledge must be innate. This meaning comes from Chomsky (1980) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.[1]

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acquisition4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs argument3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs development1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Chomsky, N. (1980). Rules and representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00001515

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