inter-innateness interaction

[Susana Lopez Ornat]

Joko: maybe you should consider this: if, and only if, the empirical 
evidence you have really, thoroughly, uncontrovertedly, supported those 
results** you mention, then you would have strong evidence against the 
non-innateness of the language learning system.
You might want to give a thought to this.

Susana López Ornat
Dpto Psicología Básica II
Facultad de Psicología
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid 28223
www.ucm.es/info/equial

**: I refer to this paragraph: "It seems to me that the same proportion of 
the 1st verb type and the 2nd verb type in the children's production and in 
CDS  provide an insight how language acquisition is possible"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joko-Kusmanto" <joko.k at telkom.net>
To: <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: inter-innateness interaction


> Dear all,
>
> Would anybody here please help me provide some explanations relating to my 
> problem as follow.
>  Currently I'm looking at the argument structure in children's language 
> from 2 - 5 years old. When I compare the verb types found in children's 
> production and in children directed speech (CDS), I found that they have 
> the same proportion. I classify two basic verb types, i.e. (i) verb with 
> Agent-like as Subject and (ii) verb with no Agent-like as Subject. The 
> first verb type assigns directly, thus govern the theta role, the Object 
> as Patient-like and the second verb type does not assigns, thus doesn't 
> govern the theta role, the Object. It seems to me that the same proportion 
> of the 1st verb type and the 2nd verb type in the children's production 
> and in CDS provide an insight how language acquisition is possible. This 
> proportion brings me to a conclusion that the proportion of the 1st and 
> the 2nd verb type in children's production and in CDS is the picture of 
> the innate properties by which language acquisition is possible. The 
> children's production is a picture of pre-linguistic innate properties 
> (not yet in form of lingual realization) and the CDS is a picture of 
> linguistic innate properties (already in lingual realization). Thus, 
> language acquisition is possible in the interaction between the mechanism 
> of the pre-linguistic innate properties and the linguistic innate 
> properties as triggering environment. I would say that this is an 
> inter-innateness interaction in language acquisition. I assume here that 
> CDS is constrained by the linguistic-innate properties which bring on a 
> regular linguistic environment and that the poverty of stimulus does not 
> really mean that the linguistic environment is random. Would it be 
> possible to be like that?
>
> Thank you all for your explanations.
>
> Joko Kusmanto
> Postgraduate Student of Linguistics
> Universitas Sebelas Maret - Surakarta
> Indonesia
>
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