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What Does It Mean to Claim that Something Is ‘Innate’? Response to Clark, Harris, Lightfoot and Samuels
Author(s) -
KarmiloffSmith Annette,
Plunkett Kim,
Johnson Mark H.,
Elman Jeff L.,
Bates Elizabeth A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00095
Subject(s) - bates , neurocognitive , unit (ring theory) , sociology , psychology , cognition , psychiatry , engineering , mathematics education , aerospace engineering
the term ‘innate knowledge’ seriously (e.g. knowledge, say, of the abstract constraints,that obtain,on human languages being available to the child prior to linguistic experience), then these must be encoded in the brain as a particular pattern,of synaptic connectivity within a specific neural,system. This Address for correspondence: Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health,