THE PHENOMENON OF UNDERSPECIFICATION IN EARLY CHILD GRAMMAR: THE EXAMPLE OF VERB PLACEMENT AND OPTIONALITY / LE PHÉNOMÈNE DE SOUS-SPÉCIFICATION DANS LA GRAMMAIRE ENFANTINE: L'EXEMPLE DU POSITIONNEMENT DU VERBE ET DE L'OPTIONNALITÉ / FENOMENUL FORMULĂRII INEXACTE ÎN GRAMATICA TIMPURIE A COPILULUI: EXEMPLUL PLASĂRII VERBULUI ŞI OPŢIONALITATEA
The aim of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of underspecification in early child grammar with respect to the syntactic consequences it has in the child language system. The paper addresses the phenomena of verb placement and optionality and how they are accounted for by first language acqu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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University of Pitesti
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate |
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| Online Access: | http://scf-lsa.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/19-Kitanovska-Kimovska-Sonja.pdf |
| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of underspecification in early
child grammar with respect to the syntactic consequences it has in the child language system. The paper
addresses the phenomena of verb placement and optionality and how they are accounted for by first
language acquisition theories assuming identity between child and adult grammatical systems. These
phenomena are discussed within the weak and strong continuity frameworks which account for L1A by
incorporating the notion of underspecification among their basic assumptions.
Continuity approaches to L1A find underspecification to be of crucial importance in the early
grammar. It seems that underspecification of functional categories and their features is what makes the
child and adult systems different by provoking a number of syntactic consequences evident in the child
system, while absent in the adult one |
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| ISSN: | 1583-2236 |