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(1985) A portrait of twenty-five years, Dordrecht, Springer.
The "innateness hypothesis' (henceforth, the "I.H.') is a daring — or apparently daring; it may be meaningless, in which case it is not daring — hypothesis proposed by Noam Chomsky. I owe a debt of gratitude to Chomsky for having repeatedly exposed me to the I.H.; I have relied heavily in what follows on oral communications from him; and I beg his pardon in advance if I misstate the I.H. in any detail, or misrepresent any of the arguments for it. In addition to relying upon oral communications from Chomsky, I have also relied upon Chomsky's paper "Explanatory Models in Linguistics', in which the I.H. plays a considerable rôle.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5345-1_4
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Putnam, H. (1985)., The "innateness hypothesis" and explanatory models in linguistics, in R. S. Cohen & M. W. Wartofsky (eds.), A portrait of twenty-five years, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 41-51.
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