2.1 Overview
In Government and Binding Theory(Chomsky 1981), the principles and
parameters are assumed to constitute the innately given knowledge which
constrains first language acquisition. The cluster grammar attempts to
elucidate the acquisition of the language ability by the construction of
the cluster graphs and other data through reinforcement learning. The
construction of the cluster graphs on human brains can be interpreted as
a sort of connectionism.
Interpretation of the acquisition of the language ability by the
connectionism causes a problem; it is difficult to elucidate the short
amount of time in which an infant acquires a language. This problem will
be solved by the assumptions that there is a part of the brain
specialized to the acquisition of the language ability i.e. the
algorithms, or that there are more efficient algorithms.