nativismnoamchomsky

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pts  Infants have language Nativism  Evidence for the claim of plete world knowledge  Youngsters learn an extremely plex system (language) effortlessly  Youngsters learn an extremely plex system (language) in a short amount of time  Youngsters do not need instruction to learn their mother tongue Nativism  Do youngsters who are born deaf can learn an impoverished language at a level that is higher than the level they hear?  Youngsters develop Creole from pidgin  Infants do not hear grammar。 they hear a string of words and infer the syntactic rules language (impoverishment of the stimulus)  Infants often hear ungrammatical sentences, yet they learn the grammar Nativism: Learning Paradox  Fodor’s learning paradox: one learns something only if one knows it in advance  To learn a language you have to know that language in advance  What you know is at a higher level than what you learn Nativism  In the case of language, infants are born with:  a universal grammar (UG) a data base of grammar  language acquisition device (LAD) hypothesis tester Nativism  If the child is born with a LAD and no UG, he doesn’t have anything to hypothesize on  If the child is born with a UG and no LAD, he cannot hypothesize about the language Nativism  The UG is the cognitive code.  Unique to humans  Universal for humans  If one can describe it, one has cracked the cognitive code. Nativism 。