Linguistics 490, Vicissitudes of War 2
Rationalist
vs. Empiricist approaches
to LAD
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“[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).