Publication of Proceedings of Symposium on Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition

摘要 一个研讨会将汇集形式语言学的理论家， 语言习得经验现象研究者 以及关注语言计算问题的团体 采集 几个关键主题，其中一些最重要的 令人兴奋的语言学，心理学和 计算机科学将由领先的研究人员进行探索， 职业发展各个层次的理论家。 这些主题 包括：短语原则和参数知识 结构和配置，原理知识， 有关回指类型的参数，以及形式和经验 学习能力的方法。 除了帮助促进一个最重要的 认知科学的成功领域，本次研讨会还寻求 探索这种成功的本质及其更广泛的意义， 对整个认知科学的影响。 领域 语言习得研究已经开始采用一些 共同假设，形成一套核心的方法和 这些解释性的指导方针已经被证明是非常 作为跨多个学科的研究策略取得了成功。 由于这些一般准则似乎并不明显， 依赖于语言的独特属性，很自然地会问 它们在其他内容领域的工作效果如何。 为此 研讨会的第一次会议将提出一个初步的 这些准则的特点将在以下方面进行评价： 具体的研究报告如下。 最终 专题讨论会的一次会议将修订这些准则， 然后让来自不同学科的顶尖研究人员讨论 可能将订正准则扩大到其他领域， 认知.

ABSTRACT A symposium will bring together theorists in formal linguistics, researchers on the empirical phenomena of language acquisition and groups concerned with the computational problems of language acquisition. Several key topics that exemplify some of the most exciting current interactions between linguistics, psychology and computer science will be explored by leading researchers and theoreticians at all levels of career development. These topics include: knowledge of principles and parameters of phrase structure and configuration, knowledge of principles and parameters concerning types of anaphora, and formal and empirical approaches to learnability. In addition to helping promote advances in one of the most successful areas of cognitive science, this symposium also seeks to explore the nature of that success and its broader implications for cognitive science as a whole. The field of language acquisition research has begun to adopt a number of common assumptions that form a core set of methodological and explanatory guidelines that have proved to be extraordinarily successful as a research strategy across several disciplines. Since these general guidelines do not seem to be obviously dependent on unique properties of language, it is natural to ask how well they might work in other content domains. To that end the beginning session of the symposium will propose an initial characterization of those guidelines to be evaluated in terms of the specific research presentations that follow. The final session of the symposium will then revise those guidelines and then have leading researchers from different disciplines discuss possible extensions of the revised guidelines to other domains of cognition.