![]() Unfortunately, nobody has yet found a clear answer to these important questions concerning especially psycholinguistics, because the investigation of the human brain is one of the most unexplored sciences. The important question is, if a language instinct really exists and which evidence one can provide to assume that our language ability is inherited. This important debate which concerns linguistics until today will be the topic of the following work. In 1994, when Steven Pinker’s book “The language instinct” was published, the linguistic world was confronted with the renewed debate, whether language comes from innate ideas or is just the result of experiencing and learning. Counter arguments to Pinker’s view: Geoffrey Sampson and Stefan Schadenģ.1 Schaden concerning pidgins and creolesģ.2 Sampson’s view towards the case of the KE-Family ![]() 1.3 The return of the native – basic assumptions of Noam Chomsky.Ģ.2 Pinker’s evidence for the existence of a language instinctģ. ![]()
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