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Comment author: hegemonicon 15 June 2012 01:33:06PM 1 point [-]

Is anyone familiar with any statistical or machine-learning based evaluations of the "Poverty of Stimulus" argument for language innateness (the hypothesis that language must be an innate ability because children aren't exposed to enough language data to learn it properly in the time they do).

I'm interested in hearing what actually is and isn't impossible to learn from someone in a position to actually know (ie: not a linguist).

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 15 June 2012 01:46:27PM *  4 points [-]

I was looking at this exact question a few months ago, and found these to be quite LW-reader-salient:

The Case of Anaphoric One

Poverty Of The Stimulus - A Rational Approach