Parameter setting and acceleration

Q2 Arts and Humanities

LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI:10.1075/lia.20011.sca

Elena Scalise, Johanna Stahnke, Natascha Müller

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Abstract

The present contribution analyzes the acquisition of subjects in French based on a longitudinal case study of a trilingual child aged 2;8–3;2 who acquired French, Italian and Spanish simultaneously. The three languages vary with respect to the null-subject property; French is traditionally characterized as a non-null-subject language, while Italian and Spanish are prototypical null-subject languages. Argument subject omissions in French are ungrammatical but frequently observed in monolingual children in early acquisitional phases, as are ungrammatical postverbal subjects which cluster with null-subjects. Bilingual children acquiring French produce fewer subject omissions and postverbal subjects. The present study also finds an acceleration effect in the trilingual child. The results are interpreted in light of a parameter setting which accounts for different verb classes at different locations with which the null-subjects occur, giving rise to ‘categorial CS’ or ‘congruent categorialization.’

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参数设置和加速度

本贡献基于对一名2岁的三语儿童的纵向案例研究，分析了法语科目的习得情况；8–3；两人同时学习了法语、意大利语和西班牙语。这三种语言在无效主体属性方面各不相同；传统上，法语是一种非零主体语言，而意大利语和西班牙语是典型的零主体语言。法语中的争论主题省略是不符合语法的，但在处于早期习得阶段的单语儿童中经常观察到，与零主题聚集在一起的非语法的语后主题也是如此。学习法语的双语儿童会产生较少的科目遗漏和语后科目。本研究还发现了三语儿童的加速效应。这些结果是根据一个参数设置来解释的，该参数设置解释了空主语出现的不同位置的不同动词类别，从而产生了“范畴CS”或“一致范畴化”

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LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： LIA is a bilingual English-French journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research of high scientific quality at the forefront of current debates concerning language acquisition. It covers all facets of language acquisition among different types of learners and in diverse learning situations, with particular attention to oral speech and/or to signed languages. Topics include the acquisition of one or more foreign languages, of one or more first languages, and of sign languages, as well as learners’ use of gestures during speech; the relationship between language and cognition during acquisition; bilingualism and situations of linguistic contact – for example pidginisation and creolisation. The bilingual nature of LIA aims at reaching readership in a wide international community, while simultaneously continuing to attract intellectual and linguistic resources stemming from multiple scientific traditions in Europe, thereby remaining faithful to its original French anchoring. LIA is the direct descendant of the French-speaking journal AILE.