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Modern Linguistics 2020
从儿童习得普遍语法规则看刺激贫乏论的发展
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Abstract:
刺激贫乏论是生成语法的重要根基，也是普遍语法的理论依据，揭示了儿童语言习得过程中语言输入与语言能力之间的巨大鸿沟。刺激贫乏之争已经持续了近六十多年，依旧尚未停歇。本文将主要介绍刺激贫乏论之争的来龙去脉，从儿童习得普遍语法规则介绍刺激贫乏争论双方的主要观点。本文认为，反方论证不足以撼动刺激贫乏论的理论地位，低估了语言的复杂性，忽略了一些语言事实。
Poverty of stimulus is a concrete foundation of generative grammar and the theoretical basis of universal grammar. It reveals a huge gap between language input and language competence in the process of children’s language acquisition. The poverty of stimulus argument has been lasting for nearly sixty years, and hasn’t stopped yet. This article mainly introduces the ins and outs of the poverty of stimulus argument, and looks at main points from both sides of it from the view of chil-dren’s acquisition of universal grammar rules. We think that the opposite argument is not fully enough to shake the theoretical status of the poverty of stimulus theory, which underestimates the complexity of language and also ignores some language facts.
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