The psychological reality of the Subset Principle: Evidence from the governing categories of prelingually deaf adults  

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Samar, Vincent J. ; Berent, Gerald P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 66 no. 4 (Dec. 1990), page 714-741.
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This study presents evidence for the psychological reality of the Subset Principle as a determinant of the acquisition of Governing Category Parameter settings for English anaphors and pronominals. We used prelingual deafness as a natural experiment in the acquisition of English in the presence of variably impaired access to English language data. Previous work has shown that deaf adults with low proficiency in English typically know the unmarked properties of English but have specifically less knowledge of the marked properties than more proficient deaf adults. In the present study we demonstrate that deaf adults with relatively low English language proficiency possess the correct governing category for English anaphors but an incorrect, larger governing category for English pronominals. This pattern respects the markedness predictions of the Subset Principle. These individuals appear to select grammars which generate a smaller set of sentences than the grammars of more proficient English language users. The results support the proposal that, when a parameter's values detennine languages that are ordered as proper subsets, the learner selects the value which determines the smallest language consistent with the input data. *

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