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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND This paper will be concerned with characterizing and explaining the linguistic system that second language (L2) learners develop, considering in particular the extent to which underlying linguistic competence of L2 speakers is constrained by the same universal prinsiples that govern natural language in general. Following Chomsky, a particular perspective on linguistic universals wiil be adopted and certain assumption about the nature of linguistic competence of native speakers of language can be accounted for in terms of an abstract and unconscious linguistic system, in other woord, a grammar, which underlies use of language, including comprehension and production. Native speakers grammars are constrained by built in universal linguistic principles, known as Universal Grammar (UG). 1.2 PURPOSE The purposes from this paper are : 1. Explaining the meaning of UG 2. Explaining Principle and Parameter 3. Explaining UG and SLA
CHAPTER II BASIS THEORY
According to Muriel Saville-Troike (2006), that Universal Grammar (UG) continues the tradition which Chomsky intro-duced in his earlier work. Two concepts in particular are still of central importance: (1) What needs to be accounted for in language acquisition is linguistic competence, or speaker-hearers’ underlying knowledge of language. This is distinguished from linguistic performance, or speaker-hear-ers’ actual use of language in specific instances. (2) Such knowledge of language goes beyond what could be learned from the input people receive. This is the logical problem of language learning, or the poverty-of-the stimulus argument. Chomsky and his followers have claimed since the 1950s that the nature of speaker-hearers’ competence in their native language can be accounted for only by innate knowledge that the human species is genetically endowed with. They argue that children (at least) come
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND This paper will be concerned with characterizing and explaining the linguistic system that second language (L2) learners develop, considering in particular the extent to which underlying linguistic competence of L2 speakers is constrained by the same universal prinsiples that govern natural language in general. Following Chomsky, a particular perspective on linguistic universals wiil be adopted and certain assumption about the nature of linguistic competence of native speakers of language can be accounted for in terms of an abstract and unconscious linguistic system, in other woord, a grammar, which underlies use of language, including comprehension and production. Native speakers grammars are constrained by built in universal linguistic principles, known as Universal Grammar (UG). 1.2 PURPOSE The purposes from this paper are : 1. Explaining the meaning of UG 2. Explaining Principle and Parameter 3. Explaining UG and SLA
CHAPTER II BASIS THEORY
According to Muriel Saville-Troike (2006), that Universal Grammar (UG) continues the tradition which Chomsky intro-duced in his earlier work. Two concepts in particular are still of central importance: (1) What needs to be accounted for in language acquisition is linguistic competence, or speaker-hearers’ underlying knowledge of language. This is distinguished from linguistic performance, or speaker-hear-ers’ actual use of language in specific instances. (2) Such knowledge of language goes beyond what could be learned from the input people receive. This is the logical problem of language learning, or the poverty-of-the stimulus argument. Chomsky and his followers have claimed since the 1950s that the nature of speaker-hearers’ competence in their native language can be accounted for only by innate knowledge that the human species is genetically endowed with. They argue that children (at least) come
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