poverty of the stimulus

noun

Etymology

Coined by Noam Chomsky in 1980, though he had argued for the idea some years earlier.

Definitions

  1. 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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