Innate constraints on language variation: Evidence from child language
Innate constraints on language variation: Evidence from child language
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语言变异的先天限制：来自儿童语言的证据
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2003
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K. Sugisaki
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K. Sugisaki
在普遍语法的原则和参数方法（乔姆斯基1981）中，语言习得被认为是设置参数值的过程，这些参数被认为是先天指定的语法变异点，对表层语法有多种后果。鉴于这种观点，预计参数设置，更准确地说，所需的时间，以适应数据指示正确的参数设置起着重要的作用，以解释为什么语言习得不是“瞬时”，并逐步进行。然而，尽管有这样的期望，一些明确的证据已经提供了从儿童语言习得的参数设置。这种情况导致了最近由Wexler（1996，1998）提出的有影响力的假设，该假设声称基本参数在最早的可观察阶段被正确设置（非常早期参数设置，VEPS）。
Within the Principles and Parameters approach to Universal Grammar (Chomsky 1981), language acquisition is assumed to be the process of setting the values of parameters, which are conceived of as innately-specified points of grammatical variation that have multiple consequences for the surface grammar. Given this view, it is expected that parameter-setting, more accurately the time required to accommodate the data indicating the correct parameter-settings plays an important role to explain why language acquisition is not ‘instantaneous’ and proceeds gradually. Yet, despite this expectation, few pieces of clear evidence have been provided for parameter-setting from child language acquisition. This situation has led to the recent, influential hypothesis by Wexler (1996, 1998), which claims that basic parameters are set correctly at the earliest observable stages (Very Early Parameter-Setting, VEPS).