功能范畴与儿童早期句法发展

Functional Categories and Children’s Early Syntactic Development

功能范畴因其在句法结构中的重要作用始终是儿童语言研究的核心议题之一。研究儿童早期语言中的功能范畴,对了解无法产出完整句子的婴幼儿是否具备抽象、复杂的语法知识以及探讨儿童句法发展初始状态具有重要意义。本文将梳理功能范畴的相关理论和实证问题,介绍早期语言产出、言语感知和语言理解三类研究范式下的跨语言研究成果。

The development of functional categories has been a major topic in the study of child language due to the significant role of functional categories in syntactic structures.Research on functional categories in early language development has important implications for understanding whether young children still unable to produce full sentences have abstract and complicated grammatical knowledge which provides insight into the initial state of language acquisition.This paper reviews theoretical and empirical issues in relation to early acquisition of functional categories and introduces cross-linguistic acquisition findings in early language production,speech perception and language comprehension.