{"id":8684,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/parameter_-linguistics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:24","slug":"parameter_-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/parameter_-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Parameter (linguistics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possible dimensions of language variation. &nbsp;For example, languages may chose to place the object either after the verb, as in English, or before the verb, as in Turkish. &nbsp;The notion of parameters formed a major building block in <a href=\"http:\/\/chomsky.info\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/chomsky.info\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noam Chomsky<\/a>\u2019stheory of grammar that first saw the light in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.sensagent.com\/Aspects_of_the_Theory_of_Syntax\/en-en\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/dictionary.sensagent.com\/Aspects_of_the_Theory_of_Syntax\/en-en\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Aspects of the theory of syntax<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">&nbsp;(<\/span>1965)<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">,&nbsp;<\/span>and supported by the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/ling.umd.edu\/\/~lasnik\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/ling.umd.edu\/\/~lasnik\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Howard Lasnik<\/a>.&nbsp; According to this theory, there are a set ofgeneral grammatical principles that co-exist with specific parameters that canbe turned on or off by a particular linguistic environments.&nbsp; Thus, while an infant is born with an innatetheory of linguistic data, the child then evaluates and constructs a number ofpossible grammars that are consistent with the linguistic data, and in this wayacquires a culture-specific grammar such as the example cited above.&nbsp; This theory has waned in popularity over thelast two decades or so.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"generative_grammar_approach\">Generative grammar approach<\/a>, <a href=\"grammaticization_-or_grammaticalization-\">Grammaticization (or grammaticalization)<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-1-\">Innate (1)<\/a>, <a href=\"parameter_-statistics-\">Parameter (statistics)<\/a>, <a href=\"principle\">Principle<\/a>, <a href=\"syntax\">Syntax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possible dimensions of language variation. &nbsp;For example, languages may chose to place the object either after the verb, as in English, or before the verb, as in Turkish. &nbsp;The notion of parameters formed a major building block in Noam Chomsky\u2019stheory of grammar that first saw the light in his book Aspects of the theory of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/parameter_-linguistics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Parameter (linguistics)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}