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I can say with a straight face that I was appalled when I saw Obama not help an pld lady across the street!

Clinton: 'This is nowhere near over' 2008

All the unions, the repulsive and stupid mayor 'Villar,' and the now-deranged pld man Riordan are Essel's supporters.

Essel : Fully Reloaded 2009

So endemic is the impoverishment of the pld, according to Chomskyans, that it began to seem as if the entire learning paradigm were inapplicable to language.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

However, while Crain's argument carefully documents children's conformity to the relevant grammatical rules, its nativist conclusion still relies on unsubstantiated intuitions as to the non-occurrence of relevant forms or evidence in the pld.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

For one thing, it is unclear exactly how degenerate the pld are; according to one early estimate, an impressive 99. 7% of utterances of mothers to their children are grammatically impeccable (Newport, Gleitman and Gleitman 1977).

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

Nativists have rested content with hypotheses about language acquisition and innate knowledge that are based on plausible-seeming but largely unsubstantiated claims about what the pld contain, and about what children do and do not know and say.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

There, she is in deep trouble, for she cannot use the pld to discover her error.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

What (1) - (3) show, if true, is that grammar G can't be learned from the pld by a learner using a ˜Popperian™ learning strategy, that is, a strategy of ˜bold conjecture™ and refutation.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

On Tomasello's conception, the pld includes not just a set of sentences, but also facts about how sentences are used by speakers to fulfill their communicative intentions.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

If that were the case, then the lack of complex auxiliary fronted questions in the pld would be both unsurprising and unproblematic: young children don't hear the sentences, but nor do they learn the rule.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008