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Psychosyntax - The Nature of Grammar and its Place in the Mind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Psychosyntax - The Nature of Grammar and its Place in the Mind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 129
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This volume examines two main questions: What is linguistics about?
And how do the results of linguistic theorizing bear on inquiry in
related fields, particularly in psychology? The book develops views
that depart from received wisdom in both philosophy and
linguistics. With regard to questions concerning the subject
matter, methodological goals, and ontological commitments of formal
syntactic theorizing, it argues that the cognitive conception
adopted by most linguists and philosophers is not the only
acceptable view, and that the arguments in its favor collapse under
scrutiny. Nevertheless, as the book shows, a detailed examination
of the relevant psycholinguistic results and computational models
does support the claim that the theoretical constructs of formal
linguistics are operative in real-time language comprehension.
These constructs fall into two categories: mental phrase markers
and mental syntactic principles. Both are indeed psychologically
real, but in importantly different ways. The book concludes by
drawing attention to the importance of the often-elided distinction
between personal and subpersonal psychological states and
processes, as well as the logical character of dispositional and
occurrent states. By clarifying these concepts, particularly by
reference to up-and-running psychological and computational models,
the book yields a richer and more satisfying perspective on the
psychological reality of language.
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