THE LOGICAL PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

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Published: Mar 17, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.19090/arhe.2020.34.179-204
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poverty of the stimulus, positive evidence, negative evidence, grammar ambiguity, error-free acquisition, subset problem, recovery from overgeneralisation

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MIHAJLO STAMENKOVIĆ
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology

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Overall attitude towards the problem of language acquisition determines the choice linguistic research as such makes regarding the type of paradigmatic banner it will continue under. Before each science it is the logical itself that moves forward as the vanguard of scientific constitution, as the seed that will give rise to all the methodological dissemination within a given science. Therefore it is paramount to acquire clear and comprehensive insight concerning the core of this problem – inside the framework of linguistics. Author aims at isolating the very logical structure of language acquisition problem. Somewhat overlapping ways in which throughout literature the logical problem is being split asunder seem somewhat problematic. Confronted with such hardship author finds the synthesis for the nucleus of the problem’s structure – in the unavoidable circumstance of grammatically ambiguous positive evidence.

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STAMENKOVIĆ, M. (2021). THE LOGICAL PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Arhe, 17(34), 179–204. https://doi.org/10.19090/arhe.2020.34.179-204
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Vol. 17 No. 34 (2020): LOGIKA
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MIHAJLO STAMENKOVIĆ, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology

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