The Development of Language Processing Strategies : A Cross-linguistic Study Between Japanese and English

ISBN-13: 9780805812961 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 168 str.

Reiko Mazuka;Mazuka

Opis

Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have been in pursuit of a psychologically valid theory of grammar. To be explanatorily adequate, a theory of grammar can not only describe the general characteristics of a language but can also account for the underlying psychological processes of acquiring and processing that language. To be considered psychologically valid, a grammar must be learnable by ordinary children (the problem of acquisition) and must generate sentences that are parsable by ordinary people (the problem of processing). Ultimately, the fields of language acquisition and processing are concerned with the same goal: to build a theory that accounts for grammar as it is acquired by children; accessed in comprehension and production of speech; and represented within the human mind. Unfortunately, however, these two fields developed independently and have rarely been well-informed about each other's concerns. Both have experienced past difficulties as a result.

Recenzje

"...this book makes important theoretical and empirical contributions to psycholinguistics..."
—Contemporary Psychology

"The Development of Language Processing Strategies is logically organized and is written in a very lucid and clear style that even non-professionals should be able to understand and appreciate. This book will be of great interest to students of psycholinguistics, adult and child language acquisition, and linguists interested in the acquisition of grammar in general. The extensive references included at the end of each chapter could be used by graduate students if the book were used in a course."
—The Phonetician

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Introduction. The Role of Language Processing in Language Acquisition: The Paradox of Processing Sentences to Learn Grammar. The Challenge of Processing Japanese. Proposal: Linking a Grammatical Parameter to Processing Strategies. Alternative Proposals. Empirical Predictions of the Parameterized Parsing Model. Processing Experiments. Discussion and Conclusion.

O autorze

Reiko Mazuka