Underdetermination
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In linguistics, the poverty of the stimulus (POTS) is the assertion that natural language grammar is unlearnable given the relatively limited data available to children learning a language, and therefore that this knowledge is supplemented with some sort of innate linguistic capacity. As such, the argument strikes against empiricist accounts of language acquisition and is usually construed as being in favor of linguistic nativism.
See also
- Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate
- Empiricism
- Government and binding
- Innatism
- Nature versus nurture
- Plato's Problem
- Principles and parameters
- Psychological nativism
- Rationalism
- Tabula rasa
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
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