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Rescuing generative linguistics: Too little, too late?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

Michael J. Spivey*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853http://www.psych.cornell.edu/people/Faculty/mjs41.htmlhttp://www.psych.cornell.edu/people/Graduate_Students/mg246.html
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853http://www.psych.cornell.edu/people/Faculty/mjs41.htmlhttp://www.psych.cornell.edu/people/Graduate_Students/mg246.html

Abstract:

Jackendoff's Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution attempts to reconnect generative linguistics to the rest of cognitive science. However, by minimally acknowledging decades of work in cognitive linguistics, treating dynamical systems approaches somewhat dismissively, and clinging to certain fundamental dogma while revising others, he clearly risks satisfying no one by almost pleasing everyone.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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