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> Chomsky used it to support his argument about the poverty of the stimulous but linguistics Do you know where Chomsky refers (directly or indirectly) to Gold?

> Chomsky used it to support his argument about the poverty of the stimulous but linguistics Do you know where Chomsky refers (directly or indirectly) to Gold? I've been searching for a reference for some time.

YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
No, I'm sorry. I'm not a linguist so I only know the relation between Gold's result and linguistics second-hand. I'm more interested in it from the point of view of inductive generalisation in machine learning; that's my schtick. Just to make sure I didn't hallucinate all that, I had an admittedly perfunctory search online and I could find this paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2002/file/04ad5632029cbfbed8e136e5f6f7ddfa-Paper.pdf https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2002/file/04ad5632029cb... Whose introduction describes how Gold's result is considered to support the arguments for linguistic nativism from the poverty of the stimulus. Then again, the author doesn't seem to be a linguist himself and he doesn't give any more specific references, so I'm now a little worried; and your question remains un-answered. Have you tried wading through Chomsky's early work on linguistics? I don't have the courage to. The closest I've got to is I have a friend who has read a couple of Chomsky's linguistics books. My friend is making a living as an astrologist now so maybe that's a bit of a warning there :P
hyperthesis 3y ago
(not who you asked) I thought this would be in the linked transcript, but it's not. Norvig must be getting it from elsewhere (maybe in the 404ed video?), but it seems like misrepresentation.