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Tue Jun 25 2002

TOC: The Linguistic Review, Vol.19 No.1-2

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1. Julia Ulrich, TOC: The Linguistic Review Volume 19 Number 1-2 (2002)

The Linguistic Review (TLR)

Editor-in-chief: Harry van der Hulst
ISSN 0167-6318


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Volume 19, Number 1-2, 2002

SPECIAL ISSUE: A REVIEW OF "THE POVERTY OF STIMULUS ARGUMENT"
Edited by Nancy Ritter

This issue focuses on innateness, specifically with respect to
discussing, debating, and critiquing the plausibility of the poverty
of stimulus argument and the claim that certain kinds of knowledge
cannot be learned. This topic is presented in the form of a discussion
paper by Geoffrey Pullum & Barbara Scholz with responding articles by
various contributors.

This double issue is an intellectual interchange to specifically
address the merits of the poverty of stimulus argument as a compelling
reason to adopt innateness, and moreover, to adopt the notion that the
language module is unique as compared with other modules of the brain.


FROM THE CONTENTS:


NANCY A. RITTER
Introduction

GEOFFREY K. PULLUM & BARBARA C. SCHOLZ
Empirical assesment of stimulus poverty arguments

MARGARET THOMAS
Development of the concept of "the poverty of the stimulus"

GEOFFREY SAMPSON
Exploring the richness of the stimulus

JANET DEAN DODOR & CARRIE CROWTHER
Understanding stimulus poverty arguments

HOWARD LASNIK & JUAN URIAGEREKA
On the poverty of the challenge

JULIE ANN LEGATE & CHARLES D. YANG
Empirical re-aassesment of stimulus poverty arguments

STEPHEN CRAIN & PAUL PIETROSKI
Why language acquistion is a snap

BARBARA C. SCHOLZ & GEOFFREY K. PULLUM
Searching for arguments to support linguistic nativism


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