The poverty of the stimulus (POTS) argument is a variant of the epistemological problem of the indeterminacy of data to theory that claims that grammar is unlearnable given the linguistic data available to children. As such, the argument strikes against empiricist accounts of language acquisition. Inversely, the argument is usually construed as in favor of linguistic nativism because it leads to the conclusion that knowledge of some aspects of gr...
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