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In recent linguistic theory, there has been an explosion of
detailed studies of language variation. This volume applies such
recent analyses to the study of child language, developing new
approaches to change and variation in child grammars and revealing
both early knowledge in several areas of grammar and a period of
extended development in others. Topics dealt with include question
formation, subjectless sentences, object gaps, rules for missing
subject interpretation, passive sentences, rules for pronoun
interpretation and argument structure. Leading developmental
linguists and psycholinguists show how linguistic theory can help
define and inform a theory of the dynamics of language development
and its biological basis, meeting the growing need for such studies
in programs in linguistics, psychology, and cognitive
science.
In May 1985 the University of Massachusetts held the first
conference on the parameter setting model of grammar and
acquisition. The conference was conceived in the belief that there
is a new possibility of tightly connecting grammatical studies and
language acquisition studies, and that this new possibility has
grown out of the new generation of ideas about the relation of
Universal Grammar to the grammar of particular languages. The
papers in this volume are all concerned in one way or another with
the 'parametric' model of grammar, and with its role in explaining
the acquisition of language. Before summarizing the accompanying
papers, I would like to sketch the intellectual background of these
new ideas. It has long been the acknowledged goal of grammatical
theorists to explicate the relation between the experience of the
child and the knowledge of the adult. Somehow, the child selects a
unique grammar (by assumption) compatible with a random partially
unreliable sample of some language. In the earliest work in
generative grammar, starting with Chomsky's Aspects, and extending
to such works as Jackendoffs Lexicalist Syntax (1977), the model of
this account was the formal evaluation metric, accompanied by a
general rule writing system. The model of acquisition was the
following: the child composed a grammar by writing rules in the
rule writing system, under the constraint that the rules must be
compatible with the data, and that the grammar must be the one most
highly valued by the evaluation metric.
In May 1985 the University of Massachusetts held the first
conference on the parameter setting model of grammar and
acquisition. The conference was conceived in the belief that there
is a new possibility of tightly connecting grammatical studies and
language acquisition studies, and that this new possibility has
grown out of the new generation of ideas about the relation of
Universal Grammar to the grammar of particular languages. The
papers in this volume are all concerned in one way or another with
the 'parametric' model of grammar, and with its role in explaining
the acquisition of language. Before summarizing the accompanying
papers, I would like to sketch the intellectual background of these
new ideas. It has long been the acknowledged goal of grammatical
theorists to explicate the relation between the experience of the
child and the knowledge of the adult. Somehow, the child selects a
unique grammar (by assumption) compatible with a random partially
unreliable sample of some language. In the earliest work in
generative grammar, starting with Chomsky's Aspects, and extending
to such works as Jackendoffs Lexicalist Syntax (1977), the model of
this account was the formal evaluation metric, accompanied by a
general rule writing system. The model of acquisition was the
following: the child composed a grammar by writing rules in the
rule writing system, under the constraint that the rules must be
compatible with the data, and that the grammar must be the one most
highly valued by the evaluation metric.
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