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The simple critique of the poverty of the stimulus argument is that there's no poverty of the stimulus: children receive ample, rich linguistic input as well as
by panglott 10y ago
The simple critique of the poverty of the stimulus argument is that there's no poverty of the stimulus: children receive ample, rich linguistic input as well as useful feedback. Children receive a lot more negative evidence than Chomsky suggests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus#Against_the_argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus#Agains... Is Chomsky's argument for the poverty of the stimulus based on empirical observations of child language acquisition?