The mechanism of human development is believed to be explained by empirical factors, innate factors, and their interactions. Empirical factors refer to the influences from experiences in physical and social environments after birth, while innate factors pertain to genetically endowed characteristics. The interaction between these factors varies by domain, but since the mid-twentieth century, nativism has been particularly influential in the field of language acquisition. This perspective, strongly shaped by Noam Chomsky’s argument regarding the impossibility of language acquisition through experience alone, posits that humans are uniquely endowed with innate symbolic-logical rules for language. This idea aligned with the early cognitive science framework that conceptualized human intelligence as information processing and was widely embraced by researchers.