inter-innateness interaction

[Joko-Kusmanto]

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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