Brass tacks in linguistic theory: innate grammatical principles

Stephen Crain; Andrea Gualmini; Paul Pietroski

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179675.003.0011

Brass tacks in linguistic theory: innate grammatical principles

Stephen Crain^*, Andrea Gualmini, Paul Pietroski

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This chapter presents detailed empirical work on several aspects of children's linguistic performance, focusing in particular on evidence that even two-year-old children understand that the meanings of determiners are 'conservative', that the meaning of natural language disjunction is 'inclusive-or', and that the structural notion of 'ccommand' governs a range of linguistic phenomena. This and other works are used to defend three related versions of the argument from the poverty of the stimulus, each of which strongly supports the existence of an innate language faculty.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The innate mind
Subtitle of host publication	structure and contents
Editors	Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	175-197
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199869794
ISBN (Print)	9780195179675, 9780195179996
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179675.003.0011
Publication status	Published - 2005

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