文档介绍：SLA --- AN Introductory Course Prof. Wen Weiping College of Foreign Languages
Lecture 2 Different views on Language acquisition
1. The behaviourist view
2. The innatist view
3. The interactionist view
A brief introduction to TG theory
externalist vs. internalist
externalist --- structuralism
internalist --- TG theory
4 stages of TG theory
Syntax-structure theory
Standard theory/Extended-standard theory
Government/binding theory
The minimalist theory
1st stage
Features:
1). Emphasis on generative ability of language
2). Introduction of transformational rules
3). Grammatical description regardless of meaning
3 sets of rules:
--- phrase structure rules
--- transformational rules
--- phonological rules
The Phrase-structure Rules
S NP + VP
VP Verb + NP
NP NP ( single )
NP ( plural )
NP (s ) D + N
NP (p) D + N + s
D the
N { man, ball, door, dog, book, ...}
Verb Aux + V
V { hit, take, bite, eat, walk, open, …}
Tense present/past
M { will, can, may, shall, must, …}
3 sets of rules:
--- phrase structure rules
--- transformational rules
--- phonological rules
S
N P VP
V NP
art NPl V past art N
The boys watch ed the game
S
N P VP
V P P
art NP P N P
The game was watched by the boys
TG grammar --- rules
internalist view
linguistic creativity
Ideally a grammatical description of a language prise rules that will generate possible, grammatically acceptable, sentences.