Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

Author： Alexander Clark  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9781444390544

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781405187848

Subject： H0 Linguistics

Language： ENG

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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

Chapter

Contents

pp.：  1 – 9

Preface

pp.：  9 – 12

1 Introduction: Nativism in Linguistic Theory

pp.：  12 – 15

2 Clarifying the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus

pp.：  15 – 38

3 The Stimulus: Determining the Nature of Primary Linguistic Data

pp.：  38 – 69

4 Learning in the Limit: The Gold Paradigm

pp.：  69 – 84

5 Probabilistic Learning Theory for Language Acquisition

pp.：  84 – 113

6 A Formal Model of Indirect Negative Evidence

pp.：  113 – 138

7 Computational Complexity and Efficient Learning

pp.：  138 – 150

8 Positive Results in Efficient Learning

pp.：  150 – 166

9 Grammar Induction through Implemented Machine Learning

pp.：  166 – 179

10 Parameters in Linguistic Theory and Probabilistic Language Models

pp.：  179 – 194

11 A Brief Look at Some Biological and Psychological Evidence

pp.：  194 – 207

12 Conclusion

pp.：  207 – 218

References

pp.：  218 – 231

Author Index

pp.：  231 – 248

Subject Index

pp.：  248 – 254

LastPages

pp.：  254 – 262

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