Generative linguists have always claimed that the transformational
models of language offer the best descriptive accounts of language.
But they have often made a further and more ambitious claim for
these models: that they have some psychological validity and
represent our mental organisation of linguistic knowledge. The
models are therefore supposed to explain at least some aspects of
how, as speakers and listeners, we produce, perceive and understand
all human utterances. Dr Linell attacks this claim and particularly
its application to phonology and offers fundamental criticisms of
the 'orthodox' school of generative phonology associated with
Chomsky and Halle. His own positive proposals stress the importance
of surface phenomena as opposed to abstract underlying forms and
lead to a new typology of phonological rules and a new
consideration of the relations between phonology and phonetics and
between phonology and morphology. The book will interest a wide
range of linguists and some psychologists as well as specialists in
phonology and phonetics.
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