Studies in Universal Grammar Based on Theory of Language Acquisition : Language Acquisition and Comparative Syntax of Japanese and English

我们继续对生成语法和语言习得理论进行研究，由于今年是研究学期的最后一年，我们在最后的例会上总结了研究成果。以下是对每位研究者的研究的简要描述：（OTSU）对3岁和4岁的儿童进行了理解实验，实验中使用了具有范围的词，如“谁”字，结果清楚地表明，这些儿童理解测试句子的方式与成年人完全相同。这又一次支持了这样一种说法，即最少的学习可以让孩子获得像成年人一样的语言知识，因为他们可以以通用语法的形式获得丰富的内部信息。对生产资料的调查也得出了同样的结论。调查了相关的心理语言学和认知科学研究。（IMANISHI）针对Faculty of Language与其他认知模块之间的相互作用进行了广泛的研究，旨在更好地理解人类认知的结构和功能。在类型学上不同的语言之间也进行了比较句法调查，特别强调普遍属性和非普遍属性之间的区别。

We continued our research on generative grammar and theory of language acquisition, and wrapped up research results at our final regular meeting as this is the final year of the research term.A brief description of each investigator's research follows :(OTSU)Comprehension experiments with 3- and 4-year olds using sentences with scope-taking words such as wh-words were conducted, and the results clearly show that these children comprehend test sentences in exactly the same fashion as adults, lending another support to the claim that minimal learning leads children to the adult-like linguistic knowledge given the rich internal information available to them in the form of Universal Grammar. Investigation in production data had led to the same conclusion. Survey of relevant psycholinguistic and cognitive-scientific studies was also carried out.(IMANISHI)Extensive research on the interaction between Faculty of Language and other cognitive modules was carried out, aiming at better understanding of the structure and function of human cognition. Comparative syntactic investigations among typologically diverse languages were also carried out with particular emphasis on the distinction between universal properties and non-universal properties.