桂诗春教授讲座关于语言机能问题大辩论.pptVIP

关于语言机能的一次大辩论 桂诗春 缘起 Language faculty(语言机能、语言器官、语言官能) LAD(Language Acquisition Device), POS( Povertyorammar, 直是 Chomsky理论的核心,它和UG( Universal GI Stimulus)、 The Minimalist Program都有密切关系,是他不 能放弃的底线。最早的思想可追溯到 A Review of b.F Skinners Verbal Behavior (1959) The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or hypothesis-formulatinaability of uinknown character and complexitv 在2000他把 language faculty定义为 The brain has a component- call it the language faculty-that is dedicated to language and its use, the language faculty has an initial state determined by biological endowment. The environment traders and to a lmit extent shapes an internally process of growth, which stabilizes(pretty much at about puberty 缘起 令实际上这可以追溯到1990, Pinker Bloom 的文章所引起的争论,他们的 Natura Language and Natura/ Selection早就提出语 言进化的 Darwin适应( adaptationist)观,和他 们站在一方有 Dennet, Dawkins,而他们的 对立面是 Gould, Chomsky, Lewontin, Piattelli- Palmaris等,他们提出功能变异 ( exaptationist)观。 辫论的过程 *2002, Marc D Hauser, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch(HCF) tried to redefine language faculty in their paper The Faculty of Language: What /s /t, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?(Science, Vol. 298, 2002) 2005 Steve Pinker Ray Jackendoff(P)提出他们的批评 e faculty of language: whats special about it?(Cognition 95,2005) 今园200,Ftch, Hauser, Chomsky做出的回应(FHC)The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications(Cognition 97, 2005) 园005 Jackendoff and Pinker(JP)对回应的讨论 The nature language reply to Fitch, Hauser, and chsmskyoluon Cognition 97, 2005 冷HCF认识到 linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology and neuroscience. It is now possible to redefine language faculty asFLB (the faculty of language in the broad sense and FLN (the faculty of language in the narrow sense 他们首先提出语言进化的理论的3个横切面 (cross-cuts)