Language Processing and Language AcquisitionLyn Frazier, J. de Villiers Springer Science & Business Media, 30 sep 1990 - 398 pagina's Studies of language acqUiSItion have largely ignored processing prin ciples and mechanisms. Not surprisingly, questions concerning the analysis of an informative linguistic input - the potential evidence for grammatical parameter setting - have also been ignored. Especially in linguistic approaches to language acquisition, the role of language processing has not been prominent. With few exceptions (e. g. Goodluck and Tavakolian, 1982; Pinker, 1984) discussions of language perform ance tend to arise only when experimental debris, the artifact of some experiment, needs to be cleared away. Consequently, language pro cessing has been viewed as a collection of rather uninteresting perform ance factors obscuring the true object of interest, namely, grammar acquisition. On those occasions when parsing "strategies" have been incorporated into accounts of language development, they have often been discussed as vague preferences, not open to rigorous analysis. In principle, however, theories of language comprehension can and should be subjected to the same criteria of explicitness and explanatoriness as other theories, e. g. , theories of grammar. Thus their peripheral role in accounts of language development may reflect accidental factors, rather than any inherent fuzziness or irrelevance to the language acquisition problem. It seems probable that an explicit model of the way(s) processing routines are applied in acquisition would help solve some central problems of grammar acquisition, since these routines regulate the application of grammatical knowledge to novel inputs. |
Inhoudsopgave
DAVID LEBEAUX The Grammatical Nature of the Acquisi | 13 |
ANNE VAINIKKA The Status of Grammatical Default | 83 |
KEN WEXLER On Unparsable Input in Language Acquisi | 105 |
VIRGINIA VALIAN Logical and Psychological Constraints | 119 |
THOMAS ROEPER and JÜRGEN WEISSENBORN How | 147 |
REIKO MAZUKA and BARBARA LUST On Parameter | 163 |
NOBUKO HASEGAWA Comments on Mazuka and Lusts | 207 |
JANET DEAN FODOR Parameters and ParameterSetting | 225 |
JILL DE VILLIERS THOMAS ROEPER and ANNE VAINIKKA | 257 |
AMY WEINBERG Child Grammars Radically Different or | 299 |
DANA MCDANIEL and HELEN SMITH CAIRNS | 313 |
JANE GRIMSHAW and SARA THOMAS ROSEN Obeying | 357 |
LIST OF FIRST AUTHORS | 383 |
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