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Connectionism and nativism
Jutronić, Dunja
The central theme of this paper is that the compatibility between nativism and connectionism has been overstated. The arguments are the following: 1. Minimal nativism can be reconstructed in a way ...that it is in harmony with connectionism but this fact is of no great importance since every empiricism is compatible with the demands of minimal nativism. 2. Even if there is prewiring and pretuning in connectionist networks there does not seem to be any set of universal prewiring and tuning. 3. Innate language learning mechanism embodies constraints that are specific to the task of language learning and of no use in other domains. Connectionist learning mechanisms are anything but language specific. 4. Argument about the propositional knowledge of innate principles shows that connectionism is incompatible with nativism. It actually points to the fact that nativism in this strong thesis has wrong premises about the knowledge of language as knowledge-that. Connectionist models more refute than support strong nativistic thesis, thus their compatibility with nativism is questionable. Connectionism avoids the assumption of rigid genetic predeterminism that traditionally goes along with the nativist view. It gives us a new perspective on the issue of innate versus acquired knowledge. Connectionism complies to the minimal nativism but it questions language universals thesis and goes against the assumption of the prepositional knowledge of linguistic prenciples and rules. On the other hand it does not support a plausible language modularity thesis
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