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  1. Language acquisition in the absence of experience.Stephen Crain - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):597-612.
    A fundamental goal of linguistic theory is to explain how natural languages are acquired. This paper describes some recent findings on how learners acquire syntactic knowledge for which there is little, if any, decisive evidence from the environment. The first section presents several general observations about language acquisition that linguistic theory has tried to explain and discusses the thesis that certain linguistic properties are innate because they appear universally and in the absence of corresponding experience. A third diagnostic for innateness, (...)
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  • Zero-stimulation for parameter setting.Robin Freidin & A. Carlos Quicoli - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):338-339.
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  • The child's trigger experience: Degree-0 learnability.David Lightfoot - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):321-334.
    According to a “selective” (as opposed to “instructive”) model of human language capacity, people come to know more than they experience. The discrepancy between experience and eventual capacity (the “poverty of the stimulus”) is bridged by genetically provided information. Hence any hypothesis about the linguistic genotype (or “Universal Grammar,” UG) has consequences for what experience is needed and what form people's mature capacities (or “grammars”) will take. This BBS target article discusses the “trigger experience,” that is, the experience that actually (...)
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  • Positive and negative evidence in language acquistion.Jane Grimshaw & Steven Pinker - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):341-342.
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  • Productivity and constraints in the acquisition of the passive.Steven Pinker - 1987 - Cognition 26 (3):195-267.
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  • Systematicity in connectionist language learning.Robert F. Hadley - 1994 - Mind and Language 9 (3):247-72.
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  • Negative evidence in language acquisition.Gary F. Marcus - 1993 - Cognition 46 (1):53-85.
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  • The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children’s and adults’ graded judgements of argument-structure overgeneralization errors.Ben Ambridge, Julian M. Pine, Caroline F. Rowland & Chris R. Young - 2008 - Cognition 106 (1):87-129.
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  • The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective.Anne S. Hsu & Nick Chater - 2010 - Cognitive Science 34 (6):972-1016.
    Natural language is full of patterns that appear to fit with general linguistic rules but are ungrammatical. There has been much debate over how children acquire these “linguistic restrictions,” and whether innate language knowledge is needed. Recently, it has been shown that restrictions in language can be learned asymptotically via probabilistic inference using the minimum description length (MDL) principle. Here, we extend the MDL approach to give a simple and practical methodology for estimating how much linguistic data are required to (...)
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  • A possible mathematical specification of “degree-0” or “degree-0 plus a little” learnability.Aravind K. Joshi - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):345-347.
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  • Some observations on degree of learnability.C. L. Baker - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):334-335.
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  • In defense of development.Ruth A. Berman - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):612-613.
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  • Simians, space, and syntax: Parallels between human language and primate social cognition.Leslie Brothers & Michael J. Raleigh - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):613-614.
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  • On triggers.Hugh W. Buckingham - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):335-336.
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  • Not in the absence of experience.Helen Smith Caims - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):614-615.
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  • Parameter setting in “instantaneous” and real-time acquisition.Guglielmo Cinque - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):336-336.
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  • Causality and parameter setting.Robin Clark - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):337-338.
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  • Charting the course of language development.Stephen Crain - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):639-650.
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  • Innate knowledge and linguistic principles.Peter W. Culiover - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):615-616.
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  • Syntactic parameter hunting: Little scavengers might get lost.Jill de Villiers - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):616-617.
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  • Noninnatist alternatives to the negative evidence hypothesis.David Dodd & Alan Fogel - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):617-618.
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  • Linguistic theory and language acquisition: A note on structure-dependence.Robert Freidin - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):618-619.
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  • Is “innate” another name for “developmentally resilient”?Susan Goldin-Meadow - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):619-620.
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  • Language development: Relatives to the rescue!Helen Goodluck - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):620-621.
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  • Diagnostics for domain-specific constraints.Julia Grant & Annette Karmiloff-Smith - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):621-622.
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  • Infinitely nested Chinese “black boxes”: Linguists and the search for Universal (innate) Grammar.Allen D. Grimshaw - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):339-340.
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  • The language learner: A trigger-happy kid?Yosef Grodzinsky - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):342-343.
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  • Language acquisition: What triggers what?Hubert Haider - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):343-344.
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  • Alternatives to linguistic arbitrariness.Catherine L. Harris - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):622-623.
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  • Degree-0 explanation.Roy Harris - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):344-345.
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  • Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language.Joshua K. Hartshorne, Timothy J. O’Donnell, Yasutada Sudo, Miki Uruwashi, Miseon Lee & Jesse Snedeker - 2016 - Cognition 157 (C):268-288.
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  • Early emergence of linguistic knowledge: How early?Nina Hyams - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):623-624.
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  • Does Universal Grammar exist?Jan Koster - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):347-348.
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  • Language learning and language change.Anthony Kroch - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):348-349.
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  • Language acquisition and two types of constraints.Howard Lasnik - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):624-625.
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  • The nature of triggering data.Howard Lasnik - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):349-350.
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  • Early emergence as a diagnostic for innateness.Laurence B. Leonard - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):625-626.
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  • Matching parameters to simple triggers.David Lightfoot - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):364-375.
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  • The true nature of the linguistic trigger.Marjorie Perlman Lorch - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):350-350.
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  • Logic and language acquisition.F. Lowenthal - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):626-627.
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  • INFL', Spec, and other fabulous beasts.James D. McCawley - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):350-352.
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  • “Negative evidence” and the gratuitous leap from principles to parameters.James D. McCawley - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):627-628.
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  • Learnability considerations and the nature of trigger experiences in language acquisition.James L. Morgan - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):352-353.
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  • On one as an anaphor.Stephen Neale - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):353-354.
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  • Two perspectives on learnability.William O'Grady - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):354-355.
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  • Acquisition errors in the absence of experience.A. E. Pierce - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):628-629.
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  • Language acquisition in the absence of proof of absence of experience.David M. W. Powers - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):629-630.
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  • On the format for parameters.Luigi Rizzi - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):355-356.
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  • We need a team of gene-mappers, not principle-provers.Thomas Roeper - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):630-631.
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  • Maturation, emergence and performance.Jerry Samet & Helen Tager-Flusberg - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):631-632.
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