Scala: Return an instance of the passed-in type

I am trying to implement a simple validator method that would take a type as its first parameter and a String as the second and would always return an instance of the passed-in type. Without no further ado - this is the method:

def validateType[T](taip: T, input: String):T = taip match {
    case Boolean => {
      val simplifiedInput = input.replaceAll("[ \\n]", "").toLowerCase()
      if(simplifiedInput.matches("[yn]")){
        simplifiedInput match {
          case "y" => true
          case "n" => false
        }  
      } else{
        validateType(Boolean, StdIn.readLine("$simplifiedInput is not a valid "
      +"answer, please try again"))
      }
    }
  }

However I get a compile error (red underscore in my IDE) saying: "type mismatch; Found Boolean(true) required : T

I realize that T here is a type, but how can I specify that I want to return an instance of that type? I tried to play with the ClassTag also but with no success. Thank you.