Formal Principles of Language Acquisition
Formal Principles of Language Acquisition
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语言习得的形式原则
DOI：
10.2307/414105
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发表时间：
1980
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通讯作者：
P. Culicover
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作者：
K. Wexler;P. Culicover
语言的可学性问题是现代语言学的核心问题。然而，尽管它的重要性，对语言可学性问题的研究很少超越目前在语言学家和心理学家中流行的非正式的、常识性的直觉。通过把他们的调查集中在正式的语言可学性理论上--正式的数学语言学的接口，语言学理论和认知心理学本书的作者们发展了一套严谨而统一的理论，将语言可学性的研究引向了人类语言习得机制的发现。他们的研究对语言学理论、儿童语言研究和语言哲学都有重要意义。《语言习得的形式原则》发展了严格的数学方法来证明语法类的可学性。它采用了成熟的转换生成语法理论，建立了一套足够的语法学习的形式约束的心理动机。此外，本研究还探讨了语言学习机制与学习环境之间的复杂互动关系、可学性约束的经验充分性、语法类别的可行性和可达性、语义学在语言可学性中的作用、以及转换生成语法作为人类语言能力模型的充分性。这是第一次认真和广泛地发展一种形式和精确的语法，语言可学性理论将引起心理学和语言学研究人员的兴趣，并推荐用于语言习得、语言学理论、心理语言学和数学语言学的研究生课程，以及涉及语言学习、使用和哲学的跨学科课程。目录：方法论考虑;可学性理论的基础;转换语法的可学性结果;第二阶段可学性;可学性限制的语言证据;功能、表现与解释;后续议题：语言互动、不变性原则、开放性问题;注释、参考书目、索引。
The question of language learnability is central to modern linguistics. Yet, despite its importance, research into the problems of language learnability has rarely gone beyond the informal, commonsense intuitions that currently prevail among linguists and psychologists.By focusing their inquiry on formal language learnability theory--the interface of formal mathematical linguistics, linguistic theory and cognitive psychology--the authors of this book have developed a rigorous and unified theory that opens the study of language learnability to discoveries about the mechanisms of language acquisition in human beings. Their research has important implications for linguistic theory, child language research, and the philosophy of language."Formal Principles of Language Acquisition" develops rigorous mathematical methods for demonstrating the learnability of classes of grammars. It adapts the well-developed theories of transformational grammar to establish psychological motivation for a set of formal constraints on grammars sufficient for learnability. In addition, the research deals with such matters as the complex interaction between the mechanism of language learning and the learning environment, the empirical adequacy of the learnability constraints, feasibility and attainability of classes of grammars, the role of semantics in language learnability, and the adequacy of transformational grammars as models of human linguistic competence.This first serious and extended development of a formal and precise theory of language learnability will interest researchers in psychology and linguistics, and is recommended for use in graduate courses in language acquisition, linguistic theory, psycholinguistics, and mathematical linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary courses that deal with language learning, use, and philosophy.Contents: Methodological Considerations; Foundations of a Theory of Learnability; A Learnability Result for Transformational Grammar; Degree-2 Learnability; Linguistic Evidence for the Learnability Constraints; Function, Performance and Explanations; Further Issues: Linguistic Interaction, Invariance Principle, Open Problems; Notes, Bibliography, Index.