모국어와 외국어 습득에 관한 보편문법의 역설

• 영문명: The UG Paradox of Native and Foreign Language Acquisition
• 발행기관: 한국영어독서교육학회
• 저자명: 홍선호(Hong, Sun-ho)
• 간행물 정보: 『English Reading and Teaching』Vol.6 No.2, 81~102쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.12.30

영문 초록

In this paper, I discuss the two issues: the properties of the language acquisition device, an biological organ related to the human language and Plato’s and Orwell’s problems, which are well known as the problems of language acquisition. The nature of human language, that is, creativity and arbitrariness, are also discussed based on the theory of generative grammar. It is argued that the working principle of the algorithm of the language acquisition device enables the chemical combination of essential elements of language, which leads to the creativity and arbitrariness of language. Plato s problem related to the native language acquisition is accounted for by the maturation of the biological language organ and by the substantial minimalism and derivational minimalism. For Orwell s problem related to foreign language acquisition, I tried to find the answer in Chomsky’s(1981) principles and parameters theory. Although all languages are composed by the same principle, the differential characteristics of each language comes from its parameters. The greater differences of parameters between the native language and the foreign language lead to the greater difficulties experienced by foreign language learners. Therefore, in the case of learning a foreign language which has different parameters from the native language, I argue that starting the foreign language learning early is more effective in reducing the difficulty of learning the language.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 이론적 논의

Ⅲ. 언어습득장치의 원리

Ⅳ. 오웰의 문제와 매개변인의 재고정

Ⅴ. 결론

키워드

언어습득장치 생성문법 원리와 매개변인 플라톤의 문제 오웰의 문제 language acquisition device generative grammar principles and parameters Plato’s problem Orwell’s problem