Language and Learning

THE PIAGET–CHOMSKY DEBATE IN FULL. Based on the transcription of the colloquium held in OCTOBER 1975 at the ABBAYE DE ROYAUMONT near Paris, with two papers written for the participants beforehand. Published by arrangement with Éditions du Seuil, publishers of the French edition Théories du langage, théories de l’apprentissage (1979); copyright 1980 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and Routledge & Kegan Paul; ISBN 0-674-50940-4. Innateness against constructivism, staged as an actual meeting. With the Chomsky shelf on one side and Piaget’s position on the other, the collection holds both parties to the argument.