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

一个研讨会将汇集形式语言学理论家、语言习得经验现象的研究人员和关注语言习得计算问题的团体。几个关键的主题，例如一些最令人兴奋的语言学，心理学和计算机科学之间的当前互动将由领先的研究人员和理论家在职业发展的各个层面进行探讨。这些主题包括：短语结构和配置的原则和参数的知识，关于回指类型的原则和参数的知识，以及可学习性的正式和经验方法。除了帮助推动认知科学中最成功的领域之一的进步之外，本次研讨会还寻求探索这一成功的本质及其对整个认知科学的更广泛影响。语言习得研究领域已经开始采用一些共同的假设，这些假设形成了一套核心的方法论和解释性指导方针，作为一种跨多个学科的研究策略，这些假设已被证明是非常成功的。由于这些通用的指导方针似乎并不明显地依赖于语言的独特属性，因此很自然地要问它们在其他内容领域的效果如何。为此目的，专题讨论会的开幕会议将提出这些准则的初步特征，以便根据随后的具体研究报告加以评价。研讨会的最后阶段将修订这些指导方针，然后由不同学科的主要研究人员讨论修订后的指导方针在其他认知领域的可能扩展。

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.