The linguist and the psychologist could be friends. A commentary on Bennett-Kastor  

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Reibel, David A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 6 no. 18 (1986), page 175-178.
Fulltext: First Language 1986 6. 175-178.pdf (217.26KB)

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The article ’The Two Fields of Child Language Research’ by Tina L. Bennett-Kastor raises too many questions of interest and importance for all of them to be discussed here. However, what I have to say will be based on the assumption that everyone has read the article, and digested its data, implications, claims, and recommendations. The primary question raised is not just whether a unified field of CLR is possible or attainable, but also whether it is desirable at all. Language behaviour, as distinct from language as such, is such a multidimensional system that it is not surprising that LBR (Language Behaviour Research) has no unified theory or research format (see in this connection Chomsky’s concept of the ’performance model’ - Chomsky 1965:3-62; or Hymes’s ’communicative competence’ - Hymes 1972). One of the most regrettable aspects of contemporary science, including linguistics and psychology, is the tendency to erect theoretical and methodological edifices or schools of thought which then become selfcentred bastions of often rigid, self-fulfilling doctrine; any attempts by iconoclastic outsiders to offer realistic and believable alternatives and critiques are subjected to merciless ridicule, incredulous disbelief, and outright rejection.

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