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What if Chomsky were right?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2004

ROLAND HAUSSER
Affiliation:
Abteilung Computerlinguistik (CLUE), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Abstract

The outcome of scientific research depends on how a phenomenon is viewed and how the questions are phrased. This applies also to the nativist view of language acquisition. As a complement to MacWhinney's discussion of nativism from the viewpoint of cognitive psychology, I would like to devote this commentary to the question of the title from the viewpoint of computational linguistics.

Type
Discussion
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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