On the comprehension/production dilemma in child language

Paul Smolensky

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Language Development and Disorders Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Phonetics and Phonology Research

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Le fait que la capacite de production des enfants soit inferieure a leur capacite de comprehension, pose un dilemne conceptuel pour les etudes generatives sur l'acquisition du langage : les productions des enfants refletent-elles en effet leurs competences de la meme maniere que les adultes, ou le fosse entre competence et performance est-il dramatiquement plus important ? Pour resoudre ce dilemne, l'A. montre ici que les enfants n'ont pas deux grammaires, mais une seule, et que celle-ci est liee a la theorie de l'optimalite. Cette grammaire permet d'etablir que meme les enfants ayant une production phonologique tres limitee ont des formes sous-jacentes qui se rapprochent des formes adultes

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