[language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] How abstract is language in the head?]

[H. Mark Hubey]

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How abstract is language in the head?
16 January 2001

by Laura Wagner wagner at psych.nyu.edu

Prunet J. F, Beland R and Idrissi A (2000). The mental representation of
semitic words. Linguistic Enquiry, 31:609-648.

Linguists typically argue in favor of abstract representations for language,
but many recent approaches to language within the Cognitive Science framework
have stressed the importance of surface forms. In these approaches, abstract
representations emerge as secondary properties at best, and at worst, are
absent entirely.

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