Locke J L
Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Boston.
Dev Psychobiol. 1990 Nov;23(7):621-43. doi: 10.1002/dev.420230707.
Linguistic innateness is a fundamentally physical notion, which ultimately requires independent physical evidence. For spoken language, it is relevant to consider babbling, components of which are unaffected by ambient stimulation and are predicted by models of vocal tract function. Links between babbling and speech point to innate factors in the ontogeny of spoken language and invite attention to central control mechanisms. These neural capabilities enable oral language learning by providing children with control over an initial stock of speech-like movements and by directing their attention to salient linguistic patterns. Dispositions to attend to some cues are so strong that little stimulation is required. In other cases, predispositions are weak, and acquisition requires correspondingly more experience. To understand the ontogeny of language, we need to learn which cases are which and to know how these interactions occur and change over the course of acquisition.
语言天赋是一个根本上的物理概念，最终需要独立的物理证据。对于口语来说，考虑牙牙学语是相关的，牙牙学语的组成部分不受周围环境刺激的影响，并由声道功能模型预测。牙牙学语和言语之间的联系指向口语个体发生中的先天因素，并促使人们关注中枢控制机制。这些神经能力通过为儿童提供对初始类似言语动作的控制，并引导他们关注突出的语言模式，从而实现口语学习。关注某些线索的倾向非常强烈，几乎不需要什么刺激。在其他情况下，倾向较弱，习得相应地需要更多的经验。为了理解语言的个体发生，我们需要了解哪些情况是哪种情况，并知道这些相互作用是如何在习得过程中发生和变化的。
