poverty of the stimulus

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English

Etymology

Coined by Noam Chomsky in 1980, though he had argued for the idea some years earlier.

Noun

poverty of the stimulus (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The idea that human language cannot be learned by young children with what information they are given, unless they already have an innate knowledge of language or universal grammar.

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