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Grammars, parsers, and language acquisition

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Kidd,  Evan
Max Planck Child Study Centre, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Kidd, E. (2004). Grammars, parsers, and language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 31(2), 480-483. doi:10.1017/S0305000904006117.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002E-31E8-5
Abstract
Drozd's critique of Crain & Thornton's (C&T) (1998) book Investigations in Universal Grammar (IUG) raises many issues concerning theory and experimental design within generative approaches to language acquisition. I focus here on one of the strongest theoretical claims of the Modularity Matching Model (MMM): continuity of processing. For reasons different to Drozd, I argue that the assumption is tenuous. Furthermore, I argue that the focus of the MMM and the methodological prescriptions contained in IUG are too narrow to capture language acquisition.