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Putting parameters in their proper place

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, montrul{at}illinois.edu

James Yoon

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Seeing the logical problem of second language acquisition as that of primarily selecting and re-assembling bundles of features anew, Lardiere proposes to dispense with the deductive learning approach and its broad range of consequences subsumed under the concept of parameters. While we agree that feature assembly captures more precisely the complexity of the form—meaning mapping task in second language acquisition, we disagree with the dismissal of a parametric approach. We argue instead that the notion of parameter is not incompatible with feature assembly, if parameters and features are understood in a particular way.

Key Words: parameters • features • syncretic categories • genericity • perfectivity

Second Language Research, Vol. 25, No. 2, 291-311 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0267658308100290


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