In the nature–nurture debate, which linguist proposed an innate core of abstract knowledge about language that pre-specifies a framework for all natural languages (Universal Grammar)?
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Correct answer: B. Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky's Universal Grammar rests on the 'poverty of the stimulus': children acquire rules they could not learn from the input alone.
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