Pizzuto E, Caselli M C
Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Rome.
J Child Lang. 1992 Oct;19(3):491-557. doi: 10.1017/s0305000900011557.
This study explores the spontaneous acquisition of Italian inflectional morphology by three children (age range I;4-3;O). Longitudinal, free speech samples are examined, focusing on the development of the morphological paradigms of Italian verbs, pronouns and articles. Data analysis is conducted using criteria appropriate to allow reliable cross-linguistic comparisons with data from English. By this means we evaluate the plausibility of a nativist, parameter-setting account of language development in Italian and English, as recently proposed for these two languages. Results show that the general developmental patterns observed in Italian are not significantly different from those found in English. These findings are not consistent with current interpretations of parameter-setting accounts of language development. Alternative explanatory models are discussed.
本研究探讨了三名儿童（年龄范围为1岁4个月至3岁）对意大利语屈折形态的自然习得情况。我们检查了纵向的自由言语样本，重点关注意大利语动词、代词和冠词形态范式的发展。数据分析采用了适当的标准，以便能够与英语数据进行可靠的跨语言比较。通过这种方式，我们评估了最近针对意大利语和英语提出的语言发展的先天论参数设定解释的合理性。结果表明，意大利语中观察到的一般发展模式与英语中的模式没有显著差异。这些发现与当前对语言发展参数设定解释的解释不一致。我们还讨论了其他解释模型。
