The relation between mind and language

This article tries to show some specifically linguistic weak points in the Poverty of-the-Stimulus Argument (PSA). Besides some quantitative considerations, from a qualitative point of view it is shown that the innatist tradition underestimates analogy as a resource for children to build their own grammars from the incomplete stimuli they receive from the environment; that knowledge and consciousness of reality surrounding the speech acts are also underestimated, and in fact play a major role in allowing children to build their internal grammars; that the role of "negative information", conceived as the fact that some structures simply (but systematically) do not occur in the stimulus, is also underestimated

Analogy · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Consciousness · Epistemology · Intuition · Linguistics · Rule-based machine translation · Child and Animal Learning Development · Language and cultural evolution · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology

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