poverty of the stimulus
nounEtymology
Coined by Noam Chomsky in 1980, though he had argued for the idea some years earlier.
Definitions
The idea that human language cannot be learned by young children with what information…
The idea that human language cannot be learned by young children with what information they are given, unless they already have an innate knowledge of language or universal grammar.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for poverty of the stimulus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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