Discussion Questions: 16 Jan

1. What phenomena suggest that language learning is innately driven?

2. Is there anything that makes approaches that rely more on conventional linguistics tend to be innatist (other than the obvious fact that Chomsky is an innatist)?

3. What are the mechanisms assumed to control language learning in the various theories?

4. What are the proposals about what is innate?

5. What data (existent or nonexistent) would be relevant for distinguishing amoung the various accounts?