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Morales-Front, Alfonso; Sanz, Cristina – Second Language Research, 2021
Saussure proposed the division language/parole and argued that language can be studied as a formal system. Fifty years later Chomsky declared competence the core interest of linguistics. Although for years Generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) has adopted this view, a number of recent publications poke holes into the competence bubble.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Dudschig, Carolin; Kaup, Barbara; Liu, Mingya; Schwab, Juliane – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Negation is a universal component of human language; polarity sensitivity (i.e., lexical distributional constraints in relation to negation) is arguably so while being pervasive across languages. Negation has long been a field of inquiry in psychological theories and experiments of reasoning, which inspired many follow-up studies of negation and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphemes, Psycholinguistics, Semantics
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Jackendoff, Ray – Cognitive Science, 2017
Formal theories of mental representation have receded from the importance they had in the early days of cognitive science. I argue that such theories are crucial in any mental domain, not just for their own sake, but to guide experimental inquiry, as well as to integrate the domain into the mind as a whole. To illustrate the criteria of adequacy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Comparative Analysis, Linguistic Theory, Generative Grammar
Willbrand, Mary Louise – 1973
This paper reports on a study conducted to determine the abilities of children to make optional transformations in sentences conjoined with "and." The subjects were 35 middle-class children between the ages of five and eight, who demonstrated average school achievement, spoke standard American English, and had normal speech and hearing. A…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
Smith, Frank – Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 1972
A review of The Psychology of Speech and Language: An Introduction of Psycholinguistics" (Random), by Joseph A. De Vito. (RY)
Descriptors: Behavior, Book Reviews, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Polzella, Donald J.; Rohrman, Nicholas L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1970
The experiments reported here confirmed the findings of earlier researchers that transitive verbs are more difficult to recall than intransitive ones and furthermore established a close relationship between transitive verbs and nouns. Implications for linguistic theory are discussed. (FB)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics, Transformational Generative Grammar
Thomas, Owen, Ed. – 1967
Articles represent four schools of thought in the field of linguistics: structural, behavioral, transformational, and tagmemic. Summarizing structural linguistics before 1956, John Lotz emphasizes the importance of spoken language and the "internal order" imposed upon "physical and behavioral phenomena," and indicates some of the basic beliefs of…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Componential Analysis, Generative Grammar, Grammar
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Steinberg, Danny D. – Glossa, 1975
Prior to 1959, Chomsky was a formalist. He retains a formalism in his mentalistic theorizing; he denies that the competence process has a correlate in speakers. Because he has based rules, grammar organization and derivations on the non-psychological process, they are not generally psychologically valid. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Theory
Lyons, John – 1970
This book is designed to make the thought of Noam Chomsky, a scholar whose work has been influential not only in the field of linguistics but in psychology, philosophy, and political science as well, accessible to a wider public than is reached by Chomsky's highly technical writing. The author expresses the hope that this book will provide the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Linguistics, Philosophy, Phrase Structure
Whitaker, Harry A. – 1970
This paper uses a discussion of experiments with aphasics' use of verbally derived nouns to illustrate how one linguistic model may be superior to another in accounting for the facts of verbal behavior. The models involved are the transformational, which relates derived nominals to their source verb and lists only the verb in the lexicon, and the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Linguistic Theory, Models, Nouns
Dingwall, William Orr – 1965
This is an attempt to compile, from public sources, as complete a bibliography as possible of works related to linguistics and having to do with transformational generative grammar. The arrangement is alphabetical by author and chronological by publication or delivery date of works of a given author. The majority of items are also indexed by…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bibliographies, Computational Linguistics, Conference Reports
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Moerk, Ernst L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
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Titone, Renzo – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1970
The psycholinguistic experiments reported here lead the author to the conclusion that there is a definite interdependence between semantic values and syntactic functions in the construction of sentences and that a satisfactory interpretation of syntactic encoding demands a consideration of the personality structure of the individual speaker.…
Descriptors: Individual Psychology, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics, Semantics
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Ney, James W. – Language Sciences, 1979
Examines the claim that transformational rules are psychologically real, and applies this claim to all aspects of transformational grammar. (AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics
Sheldon, M. Frank; Osser, Harry – Lang Speech, 1970
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Hypothesis Testing, Linguistic Theory, Models
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