Sentence examples for innate language from inspiring English sources

In language, for example, an American, Noam Chomsky, believes that there are innate language structures in the young individual, just as Piaget insists that there are thought structures.

And his attacks on certain deep ideas that he finds uncongenial — the theory of truth advanced by the great 20th-century logician Alfred Tarski, say, or the doctrine of an innate "language of thought," championed by Steven Pinker among others — have a facile hit-and-run quality.

and explains Simon's conformity to ASL grammar in terms of the operation of his innate language faculty during the acquisition period.

Pair 1 suggests the "poverty of the stimulus" argument, according to which there must be an innate language (morality) faculty because it would otherwise be next to impossible for children to learn what and as they do.

Pinker claims that ISN provides another example of creolization and the workings of the innate language faculty: it is "created…in one leap when the younger children were exposed to the pidgin singing of the older children".

If there is, in addition, an innate language of thought of the sort advocated by Fodor and others, then the basic terms of that language may also be exactly the same from person to person.

So either the general learning system that the child wields is somehow more powerful than the Associationist-Empiricist had assumed, or the Nativist is right and there is some innate language-specific information that 'greases the wheels' of language acquisition.

Fodor himself holds that what our mental images represent is determined by an associated description couched in mentalese, an innate, unconscious, computational "language of thought" (Fodor, 1975) (see: language of thought hypothesis); others, such as Kaufmann (1980), apparently think that the necessary descriptions may be couched in the natural language that the imager speaks.

That iconic striped top is as ingrained in their innate visual language as Mickey's ears.

For Chomsky, these dispositions are grounded in a set of innate principles that constrain all possible human natural languages, viz., universal grammar (see Baker 2001 on universal grammar).

To explain language acquisition, we must assume that learners have an innate knowledge of a universal grammar capturing the common deep structure of natural languages.