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The Problem Week I-Monday 1. knowledge of the world under standing (MIND). Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon. The Problem Week I-Monday 2.
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The Problem Week I-Monday 1 knowledge of the world under standing (MIND) Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon
The Problem Week I-Monday 2 Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon knowledge of the world under standing (MIND)
The Problem Week I-Monday 3 Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon knowledge of the world under standing (MIND) lexicon
The Problem Week I-Monday 4 Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon knowledge of the world under standing (MIND) lexicon cate- gories
The Problem Week I-Monday 5 Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon knowledge of the world under standing (MIND) lexicon phrases cate- gories
The Problem Week I-Monday 6 Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon knowledge of the world under standing (MIND) lexicon phrases cate- gories trans- forms
The Problem Week I-Monday 7 Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon knowledge of the world under standing (MIND) lexicon phrases repre- senta- tion cate- gories trans- forms
The Problem Week I-Monday 8 Speech sounds and understanding (matter and mind) are related by (a language specific) grammar and lexicon knowledge of the world under standing (MIND) lexicon phrases repre- senta- tion cate- gories trans- forms BUT: By what procedure will the child build that mediating structure {parser, grammar, lexicon}?
Paradox Week I-Monday 9 You do not hear word or phrase structure, unless you have a grammar BUT: The child does not have a grammar yet
Trial and Error? Week I-Monday 10 If the learner had some piece of grammar out of the blue, he might try it BUT: There is no a priori language specific grammar
Try All Grammars Week I-Monday 11 If there were a limited amount of a priori grammars, the learner might check them all BUT: The amount of grammars is astronomical, say 240
Decision Week I-Monday 12 We need a procedure to derive grammar from speech sounds
Proposal Week I-Monday 13 Let us listen to the children in order to reconstruct the acquisition hierarchy • Which properties do children pick up first, which later? • What enables children to find that hierarchy?
Preview Week I-Monday 14 The learnability of : First week: Lexicon and stress Categories (± N , ±V) Second week: Phrases (IP, DP) Transforms (movements to C) Third week: Scope and anaphoric chains (pronouns/reflexives)
Preview Week I-Monday 15 First week: a. the acquisition of word stress b. the acquisition of ± N, ± V
Preview Week I-Monday 16 Second week: Underlying and derived structure
Preview Week I-Monday 17 Third week: Anaphoric Chains