Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited

Cognitive Science

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1207-1242

  Berwick, Robert C ^a   Pietroski, Paul ^b   Yankama, Beracah ^a   Chomsky, Noam ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Linguistics; Statistics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80052412470     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01189.x     Document Type: Article

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