“…Linguistic nativism states that humans have a set of genetically-determined capacities by which to master and use a natural language (the language faculty, Chomsky, 1972;Jackendoff, 2002;Pinker & Bloom, 1990), though the contents of this faculty and whether it is language or human specific remain uncertain (Hauser et al, 2002;Jackendoff & Pinker, 2005;Larson et al, 2010;van der Hulst, 2010). Language learning is a process whereby learners conceive, assess, and reject hypotheses on the properties of the exposed language (Mellow, 2008b). Some nativists (e.g.…”