Emergent Phonology seeks to minimize the role of Universal Grammar in linguistics by investigating how units such as distinctive features, segments, words, morphemes, and syllables, and other aspects of grammar, such as phonological, morphological or syntactic rules and conditions, emerge in the course of acquisition and language use, rather than as part of an innate language capacity. An obvious candidate for being acquired rather than being innate are the phonological constraints that take a central place in Optimality Theory. In this paper I discuss whether, and if so how, a constraint like *COMPLEX ‘No complex onsets’, which is assumed to be active in the acquisition of English and many other languages, could be acquired on the basis of the data to which the English language-learning child is exposed. If this constraint is acquired, it lessens the burden on any innate capacity, which is hypothesized to contain more general, cognitive strategies—perhaps not exclusive to linguistics.

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紧急的语音限制

新兴音韵学试图通过研究诸如独特特征，句段，单词，语素，音节以及语法的其他方面（如音系，形态学或句法规则和条件）如何出现来最大程度地减少通用语法在语言学中的作用。习得和语言使用过程，而不是先天语言能力的一部分。在最优性理论中，音系限制是获得成功而非天生的一个明显候选者。在本文中，我将讨论是否可以基于数据获取诸如* COMPLEX'No complex insets'这样的约束条件，如果可以的话，该约束条件在英语和许多其他语言的获取中也很活跃。那个学习英语的孩子被暴露了。如果获得此约束，