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poverty of the stimulus
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言語学において、子どもが受け取る言語刺激が不十分にもかかわらず、言語を正確に習得できる現象を説明するため、生得的な言語能力または普遍文法が必要であるとする考え方。 / すなわち、子どもに供給される言語情報(刺激)が極めて限られているため、外部からの情報だけでは言語習得が不可能であるとする理論。
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(linguistics) The idea that human language cannot be learned by young children with what information they are given, unless they already have an innate knowledge of language or universal grammar.
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poverty of the stimulus
Many linguists argue that the poverty of the stimulus demonstrates children need some innate grammatical knowledge to acquire language.
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Many linguists argue that the poverty of the stimulus demonstrates children need some innate grammatical knowledge to acquire language.
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