Hypothesis that humans are born with knowledge of linguistic structure
In linguistics, the innateness hypothesis, also known as the nativist hypothesis, holds that humans are born with at least some knowledge of linguistic structure. On this hypothesis, language acquisition involves filling in the details of an innate blueprint rather than being an entirely inductive process.[1][2] The hypothesis is one of the cornerstones of generative grammar and related approaches in linguistics. Arguments in favour include the poverty of the stimulus, the universality of language acquisition, as well as experimental studies on learning and learnability. However, these arguments have been criticized, and the hypothesis is widely rejected in other traditions such as usage-based linguistics. The term was coined by Hilary Putnam in reference to the views of Noam Chomsky.
In linguistics, the innatenesshypothesis, also known as the nativist hypothesis, holds that humans are born with at least some knowledge of linguistic...
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which makes UG a theory of language acquisition, and part of the innatenesshypothesis. Earlier grammarians and philosophers thought about universal grammar...
(16 January 2008). "Innateness and Language". Innateness and Language: Chomsky's 'Poverty of the Stimulus' Argument for the Innateness of Language. Stanford...
said to be 'the same thing'". Noam Chomsky's work related to the innatenesshypothesis as it pertains to our ability to rapidly learn any language without...
already know (see also the distributional hypothesis). Paul Griffiths, in "What is Innateness?", argues that innateness is too confusing a concept to be fruitfully...
idea of linguistic relativity, known also as the Whorf hypothesis, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF), or Whorfianism, is a...
Press, 1983. ISBN 0-521-29648-X Putnam, H. (March 1967). "The 'InnatenessHypothesis' and Explanatory Models in Linguistics". Synthese. 17 (1): 12–22...
advantage by providing individuals with an innate sense of optimism. According to the God Gene hypothesis, spirituality has a genetic component, of which...
must be some other innate mechanism that endows humans with the ability to learn language. According to the "innatenesshypothesis", such a language faculty...
Monogenetic theory of pidgins Origin of language Origin of speech Innatenesshypothesis See the Wiktionary entry for bioprogram. See Bickerton (1981), Bickerton...
1016/S0022-5371(84)90093-8. Bates, E (1984). "Bioprograms and the innatenesshypothesis". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 7 (2): 188–190. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00073799...
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Chicago. ISBN 9780745332444. Ayesha Kidwai (January 2013). "Chomsky's InnatenessHypothesis: Implications for Language Learning and Teaching" (PDF). Language...
confused with natural killer cells of the innate immune system) bridge the adaptive immune system with the innate immune system. Unlike conventional T cells...
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acquisition, the end of which he defined as the onset of puberty, and the innatenesshypothesis of Noam Chomsky, which contended that the ability to learn language...
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selection.) Environment is an important factor in the evolution of innate behaviour. A hypothesis of Michael McCollough, a positive psychologist, explains that...
freeing resources in an energy-hungry brain. Pinker's assumptions about the innateness of language have been challenged; English linguist Geoffrey Sampson argues...
the appropriate statistical formula, the research hypothesis is supported. If not, the null hypothesis is supported (or, more accurately, not rejected)...
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