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Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or "real world text."

McWhinney presents "A multiple process solution to the logical problem of language acquisition."

Recovery from overgeneralization should no longer be viewed as a logical problem, seeing as it has not kept pace with advancements in the field.Recovery from overgeneralization is supported by a set of processes: competition, cue construction, monitoring, and indirect negative evidence.

Chomsky claims that children have no plausible way of learning grammar from adult speakers (such as their parents) because their speech is to inconsistent to adequately represent the potential of their languages structure to the child. Thus, children must be born with an innate capacity; a language instinct.

Newport, Gleitman, and Gleitman report in 1977 that "the speech of mothers to children is unswervingly well-formed."