On the acquisition of negation: What role does Universal by Lars Berghaus

By Lars Berghaus

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2006 within the topic American reports - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, college of Cologne, 14 Literaturquellen entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: the facility to benefit and bring ordinary language and circulation past the verbal exchange of signal and physique language is exclusive to people. the purchase of language is feasible seeing that grammar is thought to be common. common Grammar (UG) defines homes of language itself. CHOMSKY’S conception of grammar is limited, first, via common grammatical rules which be sure the vast define of grammar and are often real and, moment, via grammatical parameters that are language-specific dimensions of a selected language and make allowance crosslinguistic version. the 1st doesn’t need to be discovered because it is a part of the innate language school; the latter has to be got and is thought to be associated with person goods within the lexicon (CAPDEVILA I BATET ET AL. 1995, 31). The relevant job of acquisition is therefore the development of the grammar of the objective language, in different phrases, the environment of parameters, that's also known as grammatical studying (versus lexical learning).
One of the parameters that should be set is the development of negation. during this paper, i glance on the nature and operation of negation (part I) and the way kids and adults gather it in the course of their first and moment language acquisition technique of various languages (parts II and III). in addition, underlying ideas and mechanisms of L1 and L2 acquisition should be mentioned and in comparison. i need to enquire the way the rules and parameters of UG (do now not) function through the years because the individual’s grammar steadily develops and discover if the children’s and adults’ grammars comply with those.
An person buying L1 has to entry the innate grammatical principals of UG within the preliminary country and research the language-specific grammatical parameters. L1 acquisition is quick, uniform and virtually error-free. How the purchase of negation for an L1-learner develops could be offered within the moment half.
L2-learners have already discovered an L1 and are anticipated to be efficient clients of the categorical grammar in their first language. They examine a moment language, i.e. make certain a brand new surroundings for correct grammatical parameters with the intention to arrive at a linguistic process of the objective L2. Their acquisition is characterised via nice variability crosslinguistically and throughout person freshmen (MEISEL 1997, 227). half three appears at 2LA of negation and desires to explain even if 1LA and 2LA percentage similarities and if UG performs a job in 2LA.

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