Learnability and the Statistical Structure of Language: Poverty of Stimulus Arguments Revisited

Abstract

Statistical learning, and “any account which assigns a fundamental role to segmentation, categorization, analogy, and generalization ” is rejected in Chomskyan linguistics as “mistaken in principle ” (Chomsky, 1975). Acquisition is viewed, rather, as a search through the set of possible grammars for natural language,

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