Linguistic nativism and the poverty of the stimulus / Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin. [electronic resource] Clark, Alexander (Alexander Simon) Lappin, Shalom. Wiley InterScience (Online service) Language acquisition. Native language. Computational linguistics. P118 .C544 2011 401/.93 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues.: Critically examines the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus - the theory that the linguistic input which children receive is insufficient to explain the rich and rapid development of their knowledge of their first language(s) through general learning mechanisms Focuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural languages, considered. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444390568 eng Linguistic nativism and the poverty of the stimulus. Linguistic nativism and the poverty of the stimulus.