乔姆斯基生成语法_【仙姑讲语言学II】第九讲：乔姆斯基的天赋假说和短语结构语法...

不知不觉我们就来到语言学的最后一章啦。

很多同学会觉得这一章特别难懂(仙姑也是)，但实际上真正需要我们掌握的内容并不多。

现在仙姑就重磅推出乔姆斯基Chomsky的两大理论成果，同时也是历年考点，很有可能今年还会再考哟。

1)The Innateness Hypothesis

乔姆斯基认为语言是某种天赋，儿童天生就具有一种学习语言的能力。

他把这种能力称作：语言习得机制(Language Acquisition Device)。

Chomsky argues that language is somewhat innate, and that children are born with what he calls a Language Acquisition Device (LAD), which is a unique kind of knowledge that fits them for language learning.

He argues the child comes into the world with specific innate endowment, not only with general tendencies or potentialities, but also with knowledge of the nature of language. 

这里还要注意的是，LAD可能含有三个成分：

进行假设的机制、语言普遍性、评价程序。

He argues that LAD probably consists of three elements: a hypothesis-maker, linguistic universal, and an evaluation procedure.