?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=But+What+Have+You+Done+for+Us+Lately%3F%3A+Some+Recent+Perspectives+on+Linguistic+Nativism&rft.creator=Green%2C+Christopher+D.&rft.creator=Vervaeke%2C+John&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Learnability&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=The+problem+with+many+contemporary+criticisms+of+Chomsky+and+linguistic+nativism+is+that+they+are+based+upon+features+of+the+theory+that+are+no+longer+germane%3B+aspects+that+have+either+been+superseded+by+more+adequate+proposals%2C+or+that+have+been+dropped+altogether+under+the+weight+of+contravening+evidence.+In+this+paper%2C+rather+than+rehashing+old+debates+that+are+voluminously+documented+elsewhere%2C+we+intend+to+focus+on+more+recent+developments.+To+this+end%2C+we+have+put+a+premium+on+references+from+the+1990s+and+the+latter+half+of+the+1980s.+First%2C+we+will+describe+exactly+what+is+now+thought+to+be+innate+about+language%2C+and+why+it+is+thought+to+be+innate+rather+than+learned.+Second%2C+we+will+examine+the+evidence+that+many+people+take+to+be+the+greatest+challenge+to+the+nativist+claim%3A+ape+language.+Third%2C+we+will+briefly+consider+how+an+innate+language+organ+might+have+evolved.+Fourth+we+will+look+at+how+an+organism+might+communicate+without+benefit+of+the+innate+language+structure+proposed+by+Chomsky%2C+and+examine+a+number+of+cases+in+which+this+seems+to+be+happening.+Finally+we+will+try+to+sum+up+our+claims+and+characterize+what+we+believe+will+be+the+most+fruitful+course+of+debate+for+the+immediate+future.+&rft.publisher=Oxford+University+Press&rft.contributor=Johnson%2C+David+Martel&rft.contributor=Erneling%2C+Christina+E.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1178%2F1%2Finnate.htm&rft.identifier=++Green%2C+Christopher+D.+and+Vervaeke%2C+John++(1997)+But+What+Have+You+Done+for+Us+Lately%3F%3A+Some+Recent+Perspectives+on+Linguistic+Nativism.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1178%2F