Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, Volume 3, Psycholinguistic Applications

The series provides a forum for innovative, high-quality work in all fields of analytical philosophy. The volumes in this series are published in either English or German. Preface 1. Grammars in the Psychology of Language: Three Problems 1.1. Language use, Linguistic Intuitions, and the Acquisition of Language 1.2. Primary Usage of Language and Linguistic Intuitions 1.3. Linguistic Intuitions and Language Acquisition 1.4. Language Acquisition and Primary Usage of Language 2. Grammars and Linguistic Intuitions 2.1. The Unreliability of Linguistic Intuitions 2.2. From Data to Model 2.3. The Judgment of Grammaticality: Absolute Judgment versus Judgment by Contrast 2.4. The Judgment of Syntactic Relatedness: A Few Models of Interpretation 2.5. Conceptual Factors in the Judgment Process Note to Section 2.1 3. Grammars in Models of the Language User 3.1. Isomorphistic, Semi-Isomorphistic, and Non-isomorphistic Models 3.2. The Language User as a Finite Automaton 3.3. Non-regular Phrase Structure Models 3.4. Transformational Complexity and the Coding Hypothesis 3.5. Perceptual Strategies 3.6. Conceptual Models 3.7. Grammars and Models of the Language User 4. Grammars and Language Acquisition 4.1. Aspects of Language Acquisition 4.2. LAD, a General Inference Schema 4.3. Universals of Development from the Rationalistic and the Empiricist Points of View 4.4. Process Factors in Language Acquisition 4.5. Conceptual Factors in Language Acquisition Historical and Bibliographical Remarks Bibliography Author Index Subject Index Format Hardcover Subject Language Arts Disciplines