Merging Generative Linguistics and Psycholinguistics

Frontiers in Psychology

Jordi Martorell¹ 

关键词: merge;    syntax;    sentence processing;    prediction;    oscillations;    eye tracking;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02283

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

There have been constant debates about the connection between the theoretical postulates of generative linguistics (Chomsky, 1965, 1995) and the experimental research carried out in psycho-/neurolinguistics (see Poeppel and Embick, 2005; Embick and Poeppel, 2015). This cross-disciplinary relationship has been approached from noticeable distinct positions, including some views taking generative accounts as well-suited on their own for experimental investigation (e.g., Marantz, 2005; Sprouse and Hornstein, 2016), others proposing a reconsideration of certain generative assumptions about processing issues (e.g., Lewis and Phillips, 2015; Mancini, 2018), and others openly advocating for adopting alternative linguistic frameworks (e.g., Townsend and Bever, 2001; Ferreira, 2005; Jackendoff, 2007; Christiansen and Chater, 2017). Although real-time processing data are generally consistent with theoretical considerations (see Phillips and Wagers, 2007; Lewis and Phillips, 2015), it is noteworthy that experimental results from psycholinguistics are rarely incorporated into generative accounts (cf. Chomsky, 2005). This limited interaction between disciplines is motivated by the competence-performance distinction (Chomsky, 1965), also instantiated as the computational and algorithmic levels of analysis (Marr, 1982), with linguistics developing formal accounts of grammatical phenomena (i.e., competence/computation) independently from the psycholinguistic evidence about how they manifest in real-time processing (i.e., performance/algorithm).

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