73: Consequences of Language (with Nick Enfield and Morten Christiansen)
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The Poverty of the Stimulus
The computer doesn't have any built in knowledge of language at all, and it's still able to do it. They can produce grammatical language just by observation alone. So what? Why is this important? I mean, what hangs on this argument? Well, this speaks to a very old argument in the study of language,. An argument that's referred to as the poverty of the stimulus.
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