ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australia; Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australia; Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2017 Oct;81(Pt B):120-149. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.09.004. Epub 2016 Sep 12.
This paper describes the biolinguistic approach to language acquisition. We contrast the biolinguistic approach with a usage-based approach. We argue that the biolinguistic approach is superior because it provides more accurate and more extensive generalizations about the properties of human languages, as well as a better account of how children acquire human languages. To distinguish between these accounts, we focus on how child and adult language differ both in sentence production and in sentence understanding. We argue that the observed differences resist explanation using the cognitive mechanisms that are invoked by the usage-based approach. In contrast, the biolinguistic approach explains the qualitative parametric differences between child and adult language. Explaining how child and adult language differ and demonstrating that children perceive unity despite apparent diversity are two of the hallmarks of the biolinguistic approach to language acquisition.
本文描述了语言习得的生物语言学方法。我们将生物语言学方法与基于用法的方法进行对比。我们认为，生物语言学方法更优越，因为它提供了关于人类语言属性的更准确、更广泛的概括，以及对儿童如何习得人类语言的更好解释。为了区分这些解释，我们关注儿童和成人语言在句子生成和句子理解方面的差异。我们认为，使用基于用法的方法所涉及的认知机制无法解释观察到的差异。相比之下，生物语言学方法解释了儿童语言和成人语言之间的定性参数差异。解释儿童语言和成人语言的差异，并证明儿童尽管存在明显的多样性，但仍能感知到统一性，这是语言习得的生物语言学方法的两个特点。
