Ignorance of language /

The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there...

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1. Verfasser:
Devitt, Michael
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Zusammenfassung:
The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a 'language faculty'? These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers. He argues that linguistics is aboutlinguistic reality and is not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are not represented in the mind; that speak
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-293) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-925097-9
1-281-16406-2
9786611164065
0-19-153061-1
1-4356-2248-0
Schlagworte:
Psycholinguistics.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
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