Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame-Noor University of Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: The innateness of language faculty and universal constraints, especially its independency from other mental disciplines, though, is a robust theory yet is under investigation. This study is another contribution to making decisions on competence through performance. Methodology: The project applied an expressive grammaticality judgment task on principles and parameters of the Persian language and tested 24 native speakers’ claims on the statements in question. Results: The children judged sentence stimuli of two types (principles and parameters), each having two subcategories (Structure dependency and Projection principles, Head and Null-subjects (5-yr-old) performance on principle- and parameter-judgments differed from their older counterparts (9-yr-old), indicating the superior ability of the school-age group in distinguishing grammatically well-formed and ill-formed Persian principles and parameters. Conclusion: Since the older group attended elementary level (third grade), the interpretation of such results may pertain to education.
Farrokh Alaee, F. (2022). Education and Grammaticality Judgments on Persian Principles and Parameters. Journal of Contemporary Language Research, 1(1), 15-22.
MLA
Farnaz Farrokh Alaee. "Education and Grammaticality Judgments on Persian Principles and Parameters". Journal of Contemporary Language Research, 1, 1, 2022, 15-22.
HARVARD
Farrokh Alaee, F. (2022). 'Education and Grammaticality Judgments on Persian Principles and Parameters', Journal of Contemporary Language Research, 1(1), pp. 15-22.
VANCOUVER
Farrokh Alaee, F. Education and Grammaticality Judgments on Persian Principles and Parameters. Journal of Contemporary Language Research, 2022; 1(1): 15-22.
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