Child Syntax; fully-fledged Syntax Evidence of the Process of Acquisition of the Categorical Component and Information Structure of Persian
There are two different views on the nature of Universal Grammar at birth; namely, the lexical view and Full Tree view. Lexicalists contend that UG is incomplete, and maturity is the main factor for its development. But the advocates of Full Tree view insist on the child’s language tree being comple...
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| description | There are two different views on the nature of Universal Grammar at birth; namely, the lexical view and Full Tree view. Lexicalists contend that UG is incomplete, and maturity is the main factor for its development. But the advocates of Full Tree view insist on the child’s language tree being complete/full since the beginning, and believe interaction and input to be the reason for its actualization and development. Both views firmly believe that in the process of language acquisition, the child learns lexical categories before the functional ones.The consequence of this shared idea is a belief in a lack of representation of functional nodes, such as TP, CP, TopP, and FP in the early child syntax. Longitudinally studying the process of learning Persian of a Persian-speaking child, this study assesses this shared idea, and, presents several considerable evidence, to show that in the acquisition of Persian, firstly, the functional categories are learnt concurrently with the lexical categories, not after them, and, secondly, the functional nodes are fully discernable in child language, and the activity of functional categories is so extensive that it is even possible to present evidence of the child’s access to information structure. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4e9ba38280934887918fe2c83adc76622024-01-02T11:00:34ZfasAllameh Tabataba'i University Press̒Ilm-i Zabān2423-77282538-25512014-03-0111578210.22054/ls.2014.2727Child Syntax; fully-fledged Syntax Evidence of the Process of Acquisition of the Categorical Component and Information Structure of Persianرضا مراد صحرایی0دانشیار زبان شناسی و آموزش زبان فارسی به غیر فارسی زبانان، دانشگاه علامه طباطبائیThere are two different views on the nature of Universal Grammar at birth; namely, the lexical view and Full Tree view. Lexicalists contend that UG is incomplete, and maturity is the main factor for its development. But the advocates of Full Tree view insist on the child’s language tree being complete/full since the beginning, and believe interaction and input to be the reason for its actualization and development. Both views firmly believe that in the process of language acquisition, the child learns lexical categories before the functional ones.The consequence of this shared idea is a belief in a lack of representation of functional nodes, such as TP, CP, TopP, and FP in the early child syntax. Longitudinally studying the process of learning Persian of a Persian-speaking child, this study assesses this shared idea, and, presents several considerable evidence, to show that in the acquisition of Persian, firstly, the functional categories are learnt concurrently with the lexical categories, not after them, and, secondly, the functional nodes are fully discernable in child language, and the activity of functional categories is so extensive that it is even possible to present evidence of the child’s access to information structure.https://ls.atu.ac.ir/article_27_dcfbd973ab821e9f0fc2411d4758a7b2.pdflexical viewfull tree viewlexical categoriesfunctional categoriesinformation structure |
| spellingShingle | رضا مراد صحرایی Child Syntax; fully-fledged Syntax Evidence of the Process of Acquisition of the Categorical Component and Information Structure of Persian ̒Ilm-i Zabān lexical view full tree view lexical categories functional categories information structure |
| title | Child Syntax; fully-fledged Syntax Evidence of the Process of Acquisition of the Categorical Component and Information Structure of Persian |
| title_full | Child Syntax; fully-fledged Syntax Evidence of the Process of Acquisition of the Categorical Component and Information Structure of Persian |
| title_fullStr | Child Syntax; fully-fledged Syntax Evidence of the Process of Acquisition of the Categorical Component and Information Structure of Persian |
| title_full_unstemmed | Child Syntax; fully-fledged Syntax Evidence of the Process of Acquisition of the Categorical Component and Information Structure of Persian |
| title_short | Child Syntax; fully-fledged Syntax Evidence of the Process of Acquisition of the Categorical Component and Information Structure of Persian |
| title_sort | child syntax fully fledged syntax evidence of the process of acquisition of the categorical component and information structure of persian |
| topic | lexical view full tree view lexical categories functional categories information structure |
| url | https://ls.atu.ac.ir/article_27_dcfbd973ab821e9f0fc2411d4758a7b2.pdf |
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