Originally published in 1993, the starting place for this book is the notion, current in the literature for around 30 years at that time, that children could not learn their native language without substantial innate knowledge of its grammatical structure. It is argued that the notion is as problematic for contemporary theories of development as it was for theories of the past. Accepting this, the book attempts an in-depth study of the notions credibility.
Central to the book’s argument is the conclusion that the innateness hypothesis runs into two major problems. Firstly, its...
Originally published in 1993, the starting place for this book is the notion, current in the literature for around 30 years at that time, that chil...
