Morphosyntactic Triggers in Adult SLA
Morphosyntactic Triggers in Adult SLA
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成人 SLA 中的形态句法触发因素
DOI:
10.1075/lald.19.06vai
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
M. Young
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作者:
A. Vainikka;M. Young
Although the notion of parameter forms the basis of acquisition theory within the Principles and Parameters approach to syntax (Chomsky 1981, 1986) and to the acquisition of syntax, there remains a lack of consensus as to the actual set of parameters found in Universal Grammar (UG). What is commonly assumed, however, is that it is desirable to locate all parametric variation in the lexicon, that is, in that portion of the language that has to be learned (Borer 1984; Chomsky 1991). For the purposes of syntactic variation between grammars, the closed-class portion of the lexicon is crucial, including the so-called grammatical or functional elements such as tense marking, agreement paradigms, and articles. In this paper we consider the question of how syntactic structure is acquired, in particular how functional projections develop. Functional projections are that part of syntactic representation which contains the grammatical/functional mor phemes, and where most or all syntactic phenomena associated with inflectional morphology are represented. Functional projections form a bridge between inflectional morphology and syntax.Inextricably tied to the notion of parameters is the idea that specific parameter settings are triggered during language acquisition. Although we have not cast the developmental stages which we have proposed in several papers (see, eg, Vainikka and Young-Scholten 1994) for the second language (L2) acquisition of German as necessarily involving parameter setting, the emergence of each functional projection can be seen as setting one or more parameters relevant for that projection. 1 Our approach to the acquisition of phrase structure entails that the learner posits as few positions and projections as needed to account for the relevant input data at any given stage of development. Various formulations of