Is a bioprogram necessary to explain the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology?
Is a bioprogram necessary to explain the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology?
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是否需要一个生物程序来解释时态形态学的获得？
DOI：
10.11225/jcss.4.1_21
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1997
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Yasuhiro Shirai
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作者：
Yasuhiro Shirai
Bickerton（1981，1984a）提出语言生物程序假说来解释基因无关的克里奥尔语之间的共性。为了支持这一理论，他认为，在第一语言习得中的一些现象不能解释没有这样的生物程序。特别是，他提出，法语、意大利语、英语和土耳其语的时体形态学的习得只能通过假设儿童事先知道状态和过程以及准时和不准时之间的区别来解释。本文提出了一个替代帐户，不依赖于先天的生物程序。本文基于前人对动词形态习得的研究以及动词形态在不同语言中的分布模式，认为Bickerton所认为的习得模式可以用输入中的分布偏差来解释。从本质上讲，本文认为，儿童形成他们的初始原型的时体标记的基础上，部分的动词类型和时体标记之间的相关性偏置，他们所接触的输入。最后，本文提出了一个警告，即不要依赖先天性解释语言习得现象，而不探索其他可能的解释。
Bickerton (1981, 1984a) proposed the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis to account for commonalties among genetically unrelated creole languages. In support of this theory he argues that some phenomena in first language acquisition cannot be explained without such a bioprogram. In particular, he proposed that the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology in French, Italian, English, and Turkish can only be accounted for by assuming that children know in advance the distinctions between State and Process and between Punctual and Non-Punctual. This paper proposes an alternative account which does not rely on an innate bioprogram. Based on previous studies of the acquisition of verb morphology and the distributional pattern in native speech in various languages, this paper argues that the acquisitional pattern which Bickerton attributes to innate knowledge can be accounted for by distributional bias in the input. Essentially, this paper proposes that children form their initial prototypes of tense-aspect markers based in part on the correlational bias between verb types and tense-aspect markers in the input they are exposed to. This paper concludes with a caution against relying on innateness explanations for language acquisition phenomena without exploring other possible explanations.