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Rich Languages From Poor Inputs (Paperback)
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Rich Languages From Poor Inputs (Paperback)
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This book addresses one of the most famous and controversial
arguments in the study of language and mind, the Poverty of the
Stimulus. Presented by Chomsky in 1968, the argument holds that
children do not receive enough evidence to infer the existence of
core aspects of language, such as the dependence of linguistic
rules on hierarchical phrase structure. The argument strikes
against empiricist accounts of language acquisition and supports
the conclusion that knowledge of some aspects of grammar must be
innate. In the first part of Rich Languages from Poor Inputs,
contributors consider the general issues around the Poverty of the
Stimulus argument, review the empirical data, and offer new and
plausible explanations. This is followed by a discussion of the
processes of language acquisition, and observed 'gaps' between
adult and child grammar, concentrating on the late spontaneous
acqquisition by children of some key syntactic principles, mainly,
though not exclusively, between the ages of 5 and 9. The last part
of the book widens the horizon beyond language acquisition in the
narrow sense, examining the natural development of reading and
writing and of the child's growing sensitivity for the fine arts.
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