Dr. Schwartz's Lecture Summary by Hajime Miyagawa, Shiori Nagata, Ayaka Kojima, and Riho Naito

Dr. Schwartz dealt with issues in second language acquisition (第二言語(L2)獲得) in her lecture. Her lecture was composed of three parts. First, she discussed how people whose first language (L1) is English acquire the condition of verb placement (動詞の位置) in German when they study German as a second language. Second, she focused on how native speakers of Korean acquire Island Conditions (島の制約) in English. Third, she discussed how native speakers of English acquire the feature of scrambling (かきまぜ), which is particular to such languages as Japanese and Korea.

According to her research and a preceding study, L2 children and L1 children learn language in a different way; however, they have the same language skills eventually. Meanwhile, L2 children and L2 adults learn language in a similar way; nevertheless, they finally acquire the different language skills. L2 children are developmentally similar to both L1 youths and L2 adults, but they are completely different from mature L1 adults.

Dr. Deen's Lecture Summary by Hajime Miyagawa, Shiori Nagata, Ayaka Kojima, and Riho Naito

All human beings are born with the same language knowledge (principles), such as Binding Condition C(束縛原理C), and the variable part (parameters). Due to the variable part, languages differ. In the first few years, children find out how the variable part should be in their language by listening to adult's speaking.

Some sentences which violate Binding Condition C are ok, in terms of grammar, in Thai. However, children feel they are incorrect. This is because they have the knowledge of Binding Condition C and they notice that these sentences violate the condition. So we can assume that children whose mother tongue is Thai are born with Binding Condition C in their mind, the same language knowledge as speakers of other languages, and that later on they find out some sentences are grammatical, even though they violate the condition. This assumption is in line with the central idea of principles and parameters.

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