Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Bakker, P. Autonomous languages, 1987.

Crystal, D. A dict. of linguistics and phonetics: p. 159.

The Cambridge encyc. of language: p. 234.

Curr. trends ling.; Hartmann dict. lang.

Here are entered works on the psycholinguistic theory that a child is born with innate or biogenetic knowledge of certain universal structural principles of human language which are central to the process of language acquisition. Works on the linguistic theories based on René Descartes and French grammarians of Port Royal, positing that human language rests on a thought structure common to all mankind, are entered under the heading Cartesian linguistics.

Note under Cartesian linguistics

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