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Strong claim (p. 16) [via PaperHive@docloop] #274

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phrasal constructions cannot be the result of language acquisition

Remi van Trijp wrote:

This is a strong counterclaim, and I'm not entirely sure what you mean with it. Does that mean that you do assume some form of Universal Grammar?

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Remi van Trijp wrote:

To add to that: Goldberg obviously accepts that the brain is "language-ready", but the capacity of combining constructions is perhaps not something that is unique to our language-capacity.

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Stefan Müller wrote:

What I am saying is that the end result of language acquisition is not a certain pattern but rather something more general namely a dependency. Something that is also argued for by Behrens on different grounds. See the Müller & Wechsler paper cited in the text for why I think this is the case. I do not assume Universal Grammar as part of genetically encoded domain specific knowledge (see the extensive discussion in the Grammar Theory textbook). I guess most of the HPSG researchers share the CxG view (and in principle also Chomskyan view) that there is not much in UG, maybe even nothing. Behrens, Heike. 2009. Konstruktionen im Spracherwerb. Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik 37(3). 427–444. Müller, Stefan. 2018. Grammatical Theory: From Transformational Grammar to Constraint-Based Approaches. 2. Aufl. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 1). Berlin: Language Science Press. http://langsci- press.org/catalog/book/195.

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Remi van Trijp wrote:

Thanks, I will check those sources. If I understand correctly what you mean with "pattern", there is quite some evidence that "chunks" are also learned. A recent survey paper suggests that chunk-learning fits the empirical data better than transition-based approaches: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12403

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