CHOMSKY’S CRITIQUE TO SKINNER’S MODEL
1. Poverty of the Stimulus:
In linguistics, the poverty of the stimulus (POS) is the assertion that natural language grammar is unlearnable
oBecause of the relatively limited data available to children when they learn a language
Although children hear only a finite number of sentences, othey are able to produce an infinite number of possible sentences with no previous formal training or correction.
Chomsky asserts that this knowledge must be supplemented with some sort of innate linguistic capacity.