![]() ![]() The book covers, in its first edition, government and binding theory, X-bar theory, theta role, movement, second-language acquisition (SLA). ![]() To Chomsky, nativism resolves Plato's Problem of how babies acquire knowledge of language that exceeds their experience. Cook dismisses after consideration theories that FLA can be explained without nativism through the phenomena of social interaction, learning through praise or punishment ( behaviourism), imitation, instruction by native speakers or non-language specific mental faculties. On first-language acquisition (FLA), Cook presents Chomsky's nativist perspective-that humans are born with innate knowledge of natural language. Cook distinguishes Chomsky's linguistic universals from implicational universals. The universal grammar is a study of " I-language" (internalized language), not "E-language" (externalized language). ![]() A non-constraint is the head parameter, wherein the head can occur at the start of the phrase in some languages and at the end in others. One constraint is the projection principle-that lexical features are preserved at every syntactic level. Noam Chomsky's theory of a universal grammar (UG) aims to describe the grammatical constraints common across naturally arising human language. First published in 1988, its third edition was authored by Vivian Cook and Martin Newson and released in 2007. Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction is a linguistics book about the concept of universal grammar as proposed by Noam Chomsky. ![]()
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