Language and Learning: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky

By Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. 1980

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Inventing to Prepare for Future Learning: The Hidden Efficiency of Encouraging Original Student Production in Statistics Instruction (2004, background): “For example, Chomsky and Fodor criticized Piaget for not having an account of how fundamentally new ideas could develop (Piatelli-Palmarini, 1980).”
• Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments (2002, background): “…in the corresponding declarative are so rare that A person might go through much or all of his life without ever having been exposed to them (see Piattelli-Palmarini 1980: 40), and you can go over a vast amount of data of experience without ever Þnding such a case (see Piattelli-Palmarini…”
• Poverty of the Stimulus? A Rational Approach (2006, background): “Modern linguistics was strongly influenced by Chomsky’s observation that language learners make grammatical generalizations that do not appear justified by the evidence in the input (Chomsky, 1965, 1980).”
• Connectionist Models in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience : Critical Periods and the Paradox of Success (2005, background): “As in Piaget’s day (Piatelli-Palmarini, 1980), controversy explodes when this type of approach is applied to language (cf.”
• Binding Interpretations of Anaphors by Korean Heritage Speakers (2009, background): “Since Chomsky (1979) presented the famous “Poverty of the Stimulus” argument, researchers in the Chomskyan tradition posit a specialized mechanism predisposed to the acquisition of language called Universal Grammar (UG), which guides the acquisition of L1.”
• Learning Long-Distance Phonotactics (2010, unknown): “(See also discussion in Piattelli-Palmarini 1980.)”
• One, two, three, four, nothing more: an investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles. (2007, unknown): “In a famous discussion with Noam Chomsky and several other cognitive scientists, Piaget argued that the history of mathematics involved the construction of new representations that were more powerful than those that preceded them ( Piatelli-Palmarini, 1980 ).”