Sentence examples for inborn knowledge from inspiring English sources
Where the issue concerns merely their having some or other innate knowledge about language (and is neutral on the question of whether any particular theory about that knowledge is true), I will talk of 'innate linguistic information.' Clearly, an argument to the effect that speakers have inborn knowledge of UG entails the claim that they have innate linguistic information at their disposal.
Other times, 'Universal Grammar' is used to refer to certain specific proposals as to the content of our innate linguistic knowledge, such as the Government-Binding theorist's claim that we have inborn knowledge of such things as the Principle of Structure Dependence, Binding theory, Theta theory, the Empty Category Principle, etc.
However, she did fail to equip him with an inborn knowledge of his sister's sweater size.
Although Japanese pride themselves as heirs to inborn knowledge about such foods as rice and fish, most cases of food mislabeling have been uncovered by government inspectors.
Rather, this fact is a consequence of our inborn knowledge of UG.
This brings us to the question of language evolution: if knowledge of language (say, of the principles of UG) really is inborn in the human language faculty, how did such inborn knowledge evolve?
But underdetermination and the finiteness of the data are everyone's problem: if these features of the language learning situation per se supported nativism, then we should accept that all learning, in every domain, requires inborn domain-specific knowledge.
Moreover, they argue, since creole languages all tend to be elaborated in the same ways, and since they all respect the constraints of UG, the phenomenon of creolization also supports the idea that the inborn contribution to language acquisition is not just some general drive for an effective system of communication, but rather knowledge of linguistic universals.
CHICAGO - IT must be inborn.
Or is there an essential presence that is inborn?
