A review of B. F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1959
- Publisher
- Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America
- Volume / pages
- 1959, 35, 57.
- Retrieved
- Jan 31, 2012
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Children Have an Innate Ability to Learn Language
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or 'hypothesis-formulating' ability of unknown character and complexity.