Three factors in language design
Three factors in language design
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DOI：
10.1162/0024389052993655
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发表时间：
2005-12-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Chomsky, N
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作者：
Chomsky, N
生物语言学的观点把语言能力和其他认知系统一起沿着为“身体器官”。采用它，我们期望找到三个相互作用的因素来决定（I-）语言的获得：遗传禀赋（普遍语法的主题），经验和语言-甚至生物体独立的原则。研究自然集中在I语言和普遍语法，描述和解释充分性的问题。原则和参数方法为认真研究第三个因素提供了可能性，并试图从计算效率的一般考虑出发来解释语言的属性，消除了一些被假设为语言特有的技术，并为语言现象提供了更有原则的解释。
The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an "organ of the body," along with other cognitive systems. Adopting it, we expect to find three factors that interact to determine (I-) languages attained: genetic endowment (the topic of Universal Grammar), experience, and principles that are language- or even organism-independent. Research has naturally focused on I-languages and UG, the problems of descriptive and explanatory adequacy. The Principles-and-Parameters approach opened the possibility for serious investigation of the third factor, and the attempt to account for properties of language in terms of general considerations of computational efficiency, eliminating some of the technology postulated as specific to language and providing more principled explanation of linguistic phenomena.