RR模型对语言习得领域特殊性和领域一般性观点的整合

Domain-specific and Domain-general Views of Language Acquisition Coupled by RR Model

语言习得是否分立于一般人类认知,是语言习得领域特殊性观点和领域一般性观点的根本分歧所在,前者以乔姆斯基"心智主义"语言观和福多的"模块论"为认识论基础,后者以皮亚杰"发生认识论"为认识论基础。RR模型认为,先天的语言倾向使人建立起初始的I语言表征,此时信息是内隐的,语言习得分立于一般人类认知;但内源驱动的表征重述使I表征信息逐步外显,建立起意识日益通达、表征联系日益广泛的多水平E表征,这一过程使语言习得由初始的认知分立变得认知统一。

Whether language acquisition stands apart from general human cognition or not is what separates domain-specific view from domain-general view of language acquisition,which are respectively founded on Chomsky's 'mentalism' and Fodor's 'modularity theory', and on Piaget's 'developmental cognitive theory'. In the view of RR Model, human innate predispositions toward language lead to the build-up of initial I-representations of language that are implicit, with language acquisition standing apart from cognition. Subsequent representational redescriptions that are intrinsically motivated, however, bring about a gradual explicitation of I-representations, which results in a build-up of multi-level E-representations, characteristic of growing access to consciousness and widening connections across domains, thus effecting a shift of language acquisition from initial language-cognition apart to eventual language-cognition coupled.