Poverty of the stimulus
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Poverty of the stimulus (POS) is the argument from linguistics that children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic environments to acquire every feature of their language. This is considered evidence contrary to the empiricist idea that language is learned solely through experience. The claim is that the sentences children hear while learning a language do not contain the information needed to home in on the grammar of the language.
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See also
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
- Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate
- Empiricism
- Government and binding
- Innatism
- Language acquisition
- Language module
- Nature versus nurture
- Principles and parameters
- Psychological nativism
- Rationalism
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Tabula rasa
- Universal grammar
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