Linguistics 490, Vicissitudes of War 2
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Rationalist vs. Empiricist approaches to LAD
• “[McCawley] is interested far more in the properties of the cognitive mechanism, Acquisition Device, than in its specific employment–a definitive rationalist concern.  McCawley is interested at least as much in the way the mechanism is put to work, and in the way it interacts with general-purpose learning strategies, and in the character of the acquisition of data–empiricist concerns all” (p. 192).