What kind of evidence could refute the UG hypothesis?: Commentary on Wunderlich

Tomasello, Michael

doi:10.1075/sl.28.3.13tom

Article published In: What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness
Edited by Martina Penke and Anette Rosenbach
[Studies in Language 28:3] 2004
► pp. 642–645

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What kind of evidence could refute the UG hypothesis?

Commentary on Wunderlich

Michael Tomasello | Max-PIanck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig

Published online: 14 September 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.28.3.13tom

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