Parameters and Learnability in Binding Theory
Parameters and Learnability in Binding Theory
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结合理论中的参数和可学习性
DOI：
10.1007/978-94-009-3727-7_3
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发表时间：
1987
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通讯作者：
M. Manzini
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作者：
K. Wexler;M. Manzini
现代理论提供的证据表明，普遍语法包含适用于所有自然语言的一般但具体的语言形式的原则。本文的目标是将原理理论的概念扩展到语言习得。在这样的理论中，儿童在其成长中的语言中做出的每一个选择都是由语言原则或学习原则或这两种原则的相互作用决定的。语言原理和学习原理显然是相关的（它们相互作用）。然而，看看这两种原则是否可以在某种程度上分开似乎是一个有前途的方法。也就是说，我们尝试采用模块化方法来研究语言习得理论。语言及其习得的某些方面似乎最好不要在语言理论中表述，而应在语言理论之外，例如学习模块中表述。总的想法是，标记理论的某些方面不是语言理论的一部分，而是学习理论的一部分。或许可以从语言理论中删除某些关于标记性的实质性假设，这些假设主要是由学习条件驱动的。相反，标记层次结构将根据学习模块的原理计算。如果学习模块根据情况预测同一参数上的不同标记层次结构，则将存在特别令人印象深刻的模块化证明，因为语言理论中标记的实质性假设不会这样做。我们会建议这样的案例。
Modern theory has provided evidence that universal grammar contains principles of a general, but specifically linguistic, form that apply in all natural languages. A goal of this paper is to extend the notion of principle theory to language acquisition. In such a theory each choice that the child makes in his or her growing language is determined by a principle of language or by a principle of learning or by the interaction of these two kinds of principles. The language principles and the learning principles are obviously related (they interact). However, it seems to be a promising approach to see if the two kinds of principles can be separated to some degree. That is, we attempt a modular approach to language acquisition theory. Some aspects of language and its acquisition seem better stated not in linguistic theory, but outside it, in, say, a learning module.The general idea is that there are aspects of, say, markedness theory that are not part of linguistic theory, but are part of the learning theory. It may be possible to remove certain substantive assumptions about markedness, which are motivated primarily by learning conditions, from linguistic theory. The markedness hierarchies would instead be calculated from principles of the learning module. An especially impressive demonstration of modularity would exist if the learning module predicted different markedness hierarchies on the same parameter depending upon the cases, for a substantive assumption of markedness within linguistic theory would not do this. We will suggest such a case.