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Autonomy and its discontents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Chris Sinha
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, 8240 Risskov, Denmark. psykcgs@aau.dk

Abstract

Müller's review of the neuroscientific evidence undermines nativist claims for autonomous syntax and the argument from the poverty of the stimulus. Generativists will appeal to data from language acquisition, but here too there is growing evidence against the nativist position. Epigenetic naturalism, the developmental alternative to nativism, can be extended to epigenetic socionaturalism, acknowledging the importance of sociocultural processes in language and cognitive development.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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