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Innateness hypothesis — The innateness hypothesis is a linguistic theory of language acquisition which holds that at least some linguistic knowledge is extant in humans at birth. Facts about the complexity of human language systems, the universality of language… … Wikipedia
innateness hypothesis — Psycholinguistics. the theory that humans are biologically equipped with a knowledge of certain universal elements of language structure that is brought into play in the course of native language acquisition. Also called nativism … Useful english dictionary
Rethinking Innateness — Published in 1996 by Jeffrey Elman, Annette Karmiloff Smith, Elizabeth Bates, Mark Johnson, Domenico Parisi, and Kim Plunkett, Rethinking Innateness [] by Pinker that children are born with innate domain specific knowledge of the principles of… … Wikipedia
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis — In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) (also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis ) postulates a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands… … Wikipedia
Linguistic relativism — is the idea that language shapes thought and experience. i.e. differences in language lead to differences in the way one understands the world around him or her. It is an idea inferred from Linguistic determinism, and subject in the Sapir Whorf… … Wikipedia
Poverty of the Stimulus-Argument — Das Poverty of the Stimulus Argument (POSA) (dt. in etwa Argument von der Armut der Reize ) besagt, dass vieles von dem, was im menschlichen Geist ist, zu komplex und zu vielfältig sei, als dass es (im Lauf des Lebens) von Außen hinein gekommen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Hilary Putnam — Retrato de Putnam. Hilary Whitehall Putnam (nacido el 31 de julio de 1926, en Chicago (Illinois)) es u … Wikipedia Español
nativism — nativist, n., adj. nativistic, adj. /nay ti viz euhm/, n. 1. the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. 2. the policy or practice of preserving or reviving an indigenous culture. 3. Philos. the… … Universalium
Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… … History of philosophy
Language acquisition — Linguistics … Wikipedia
