Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 3)
ISBN-13:
9789027722195
ISBN-10:
9027722196
Edition:
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Author:
Nina Hyams
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Springer
Format:
Paperback
200 pages
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ISBN-13:
9789027722195
ISBN-10:
9027722196
Edition:
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Author:
Nina Hyams
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Springer
Format:
Paperback
200 pages
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Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 3) (ISBN-13: 9789027722195 and ISBN-10: 9027722196), written by authors
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This book is perhaps the most stunning available demonstration of the explanatory power of the parametric approach to linguistic theory. It is akin, not to a deductive proof, but to the discovery of a footprint in a far-off place which leaves an archeologist elated. The book is full of intricate reasoning, but the stunning aspect is that the reasoning moves between not only complex syntax and diverse languages, but it makes predictions about what two-year-old children will assume about the jumble of linguistic input that confronts them. Those predictions, Hyams shows, are supported by a discriminating analysis of acquisition data in English and Italian. Let us examine the linguistic context for a moment before we discuss her theory. The ultimate issue in linguistic theory is the explanation of how a child can acquire any human language. To capture this fact we must posit an innate mechanism which meets two opposite constraints: it must be broad enough to account for the diversity of human language, and narrow enough so that the child does not make irrelevant hypotheses about his own language, particularly ones from which there is no recovery. That is, a child must not posit a grammar which permits all of the sentences of a language as well as other sentences which are not in the language. In a word, the child must not create a language in which one cannot make adult discriminations between grammatical and ungrammatical.
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