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''Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate'' is a book by Geoffrey Sampson, providing arguments against Noam Chomsky's theory of a human instinct for (first) language acquisition. Sampson explains the original title of the book as a deliberate allusion to ''Educating Rita'' (1980), and uses the plot of that play to illustrate his argument. Samson's book is a response to Steven Pinker's ''The Language Instinct'' specifically and Chomskyan linguistic nativism broadly. The title, ''Educating Eve'', was dropped after the first edition because the allusion to ''Educating Rita'' "was deemed unduly mysterious".〔 Geoffrey Sampson, ''The 'Language Instinct' Debate'', revised edition, (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005), 2.〕 The revised edition (2005) contains an additional chapter and "many passages, from a few words up to new chapter-sections, that discuss relevant scientific findings which have emerged since the first edition, or respond to objections made by critics of that edition."〔 Sampson (2005): xii.〕 == Abstract == Sampson critically evaluates the ability of theories of linguistic nativism to accommodate the growing understanding of human brain processing over the course of the late 20th century. He proposes an alternative explanation, borrowing some ideas and terminology from Karl Popper. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Educating Eve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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