Some Possible Positions on Psychological Reality
Some Possible Positions on Psychological Reality
This chapter describes possible positions on psychological reality, on linguistic competence, that vary according to whether or not the rules of the language are embodied in the mind; to whether or not some processing rules for language are represented in the mind; and to whether or not some processing rules operate on metalinguistic representations of syntactic and semantic properties of linguistic items. The uncontroversial minimal position — committed only to there being a psychological reality that “respects” the linguistic rules — is the most that can be sustained without some powerful psychological assumption that is independent of anything revealed by the grammar of a language.
Keywords: linguistic competence, embodied rules, represented rules, processing rules, Representational Thesis, RT, respecting rules, minimal position, grammar
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