inter-innateness interaction

[Bruno Estigarribia]

>  Our work and that of many others demonstrates how in experimental 
> causative designs it is possible to see how individual children have 
> been caused to acquire particular structures  by both prototypical and 
> unprototypical input patterns that carry structural challenges of many 
> types for the individual children.
>
> Keith Nelson
>
I suggested in my dissertation something like that happens with the 
acquisition of English yes/no questions: children who hear fewer 
auxiliary-initial yes/no questions learn ynqs through a 
structure-building strategy, right to left (cf. Bloom 1970). The child 
in my sample who gets substantially more auxiliary-initial "input" uses 
a holistic strategy. The evidence is suggestive, but a lot more work is 
needed.
Cheers,
Bruno Estigarribia