Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters

Released on by Nina Hyams
preview-18

  • Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters Book Detail

  • Author : Nina Hyams
  • Release Date : 2012-12-06
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Pages : 239
  • ISBN 13 : 9400946384
  • File Size : 70,70 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters by Nina Hyams PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition

Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 8087 Views
DOWNLOAD

Dalila Ayoun provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theory by revisiting and challenging

Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition

Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition

File Size : 44,44 MB
Total View : 5589 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theory by revisiting and challenging th