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Is Chomsky right about the psychological reality of language? What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there “a language faculty”? The book gives controversial answers to such questions: that linguistics is about linguistic reality and not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are not represented in the mind; that speakers are largely ignorant of their language; that speakers’ intuitions do not reflect information supplied by the language faculty and are not the main evidence for grammars; that though ... More
Keywords: Chomsky, psychological reality, linguistic intuitions, innateness, language faculty, linguistic reality, representation of linguistic rules, language processing, idiolects
Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199250967 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006 | DOI:10.1093/0199250960.001.0001 |
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