Week 8 Flashcards
Learnability problem
How the acquisition mechanism is able to construct the right grammar for a language in response to some sort of experience.
Williams syndrome
A genetic disorder that affects many parts of the body. Very good language skills, but other skills do not exceed a certain level.
SLI
Specific Language Impairment
DLD
Developmental Language Disorder
Developmental Language Discroder
Delayed speech-language development.
Obligatory Branching Parameter
A foot receiving main stress must be branching.
What is the first proposition Iason Gabriel defends?
Normative and technical aspects of the AI alignement problem are interrelated, creating space for productive engagement between people working in both domains.
What is the second proposition of Iason Gabriel?
It is important to be clear about the goal of alignment.
P&P framework
The Principles and Parameters framework
The principles & parameters framework
An explanatory theory of linguistic competence (what people know consciously or unconciously about their grammar).
Scrambling
the apparently free positioning of the object vis-a-vis a sentential negator or certain adverbs.
internal arguments
are projected in the syntax in a position close to the verb
external arguments
Are projected in the syntax external to the VP
What are two positions on how knowledge of argument structure is acquired, according to Wijnen & Verrips?
Semantic bootstrapping and syntactic bootstrapping
What are semantic bootstrapping accounts according to Wijnen & Verrips?
They consider that children could make use of the fact that the semantic relations in a predicte sometimes predict the argument structure relations.
What is syntactic bootstrapping according to WIjnen and Verrips?
Children learn something about verb argument strucutres from a comparison of the various syntactic frames that a verb appears in.
unergatives
verbs that take an external argument
unaccusatives
verbs that take an internal argument
LVC
light verb construction
light verb construction (LVC)
non-literal uses of verbs like ‘go’ and ‘give’. A purely aspectual verb: its only function is to signal a certain event type.
What is principle A of the binding theory?
An anaphor must be bound in its governing category
What is principle B of the Binding Theory?
A pronominal must be free in its governing category.
chain condition
dictates that a dependency relation between two elements can involve maximally one regerentially complete expression.
central problem UG
relies heavily on argument from poverty of stimulus.
