"Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited" in Cognitive Science
November 15, 2011
Linguistics
"
Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited" by Robert Berwick,
Paul Pietroski, Beracah Yankama and Noam Chomsky has appeared in September's
Cognitive Science. The article develops the claim that "poverty of the stimulus arguments remain an important source of support for appeal to a priori structure-dependent constraints on the grammars that humans naturally acquire."