Why some Beliefs of the Transformational Linguists are Unbelievable  

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Ney, James W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 2 (1979), page 240-248.
Fulltext: 01_02_Ney.pdf (352.61KB)

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On occasion, transformational linguists write about the psychological reality of the rules that they produce for theix grammcrs. Assuming such rules have psychological reality, some curious facets of the theory come to light. In particular, the well-known and accepted series of rules wldcli constitute the lexicalist hypothesis would require belief in the fact that the human brain stores such obviously related pairs as careful/carefully as separate entities and -does not relate them. Similarly, the transformationalist's position would require that lexical units manifesting varying degrees of polysemy would also be stored separately. This would then make it impossible to derive ambiguous strings since the individual lexical units are subcategorized in such a way that their distr~ution is mutually exclusive. Both of these beliefs seem to be incorrect since, on the one hand, the brain must store and then produce items such as careful]carefully in a maximally efficient manner and, on the other hand, it can obviously produce intentionally ambiguous strings such as puns. At both of these points, then, the rules produced by a transformational grammar cannot be psychologically teal.

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