Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 319-323 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Edition | 2nd |
ISBN (Print) | 9780080970875 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Abstract
Accounts of language development can be broadly divided into two opposing camps: nativist theories and statistical learning accounts. We review the claims made by each about the role of the socially acquired linguistic data in language acquisition and consider the implications of each account on the likely evolutionary history of the language-learning capacity.