innateness hypothesis: Meaning and Definition of

innate'ness hypoth"esis

Pronunciation: [key]
— Psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics.
  1. the theory that humans are biologically equipped with a knowledge of certain universal elements of language structure that is brought into play in the course of native-language acquisition. Also called
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.