theoretical framework for research

[B. Ingram]

It seems to me that what you are describing here conforms more to Piaget's
theory of innateness than to Chomsky's, but then what do I know?

Donald/Theresa Grushkin wrote:

> Mary (and others) -
>
> I would agree that some form of Nativism is at work.  Sam Supalla did an
> article in Theoretical Issues in Sign language Research, Vol. 2 (1991) on
> children exposed to MCE without ASL input who demonstrated ASL-like signing.
> He argued the same thing, that the students were reconstructing their input
> to conform more naturally to the visual-spatial medium (a la nativism/LAD)