The Kaspar Hauser's language acquisition enigma under the gerativism perspective

• Autor(a) principal: de Carvalho, Margarete G. M.
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: de Oliveira, Carmem Elisabete
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/26359
• topic: Language acquisition; Language competence; Linguistic performance; Generative Grammar.; Aquisição da linguagem; Competência linguística; Desempenho linguístico; Gramática Gerativa.; Aquisição da linguagem; Competência linguística; Desempenho linguístico; Gramática Gerativa.

This article relates the history of the linguistic behavior of the protagonist of the film The Kaspar Hauser's enigma (1974), of the German director, the phenomena of language acquisition and the innate linguistic competence, postulated by gerativism and investigates how they are revealed in the commission of a speaker who later acquired the verbal language. The Generative Theory postulates the existence of a language acquisition device with h the individual is born and which, in contact with a natural language, generates the language of grammar that is exposed, developing communication skills. The present work is a fictional analysis in the form of a case study, of the descriptive and exploratory type, of qualitative character. This fictional analysis, related to gerativism, corroborates the idea that it is possible for someone who has been out of touch with other humans, such as Kaspar, to develop verbal language, although late, but that some limitations, especially related to abstract thinking that makes possible the comprehension of the representativeness of the linguistic signs.