30.1716, Books: Language Faculty Science: Hoji

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Subject: 30.1716, Books: Language Faculty Science: Hoji

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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 23:39:55
From: Lucy Ridgway [lridgway at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language Faculty Science: Hoji

 


Title: Language Faculty Science 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/language-faculty-science?format=PB 


Author: Hajime Hoji

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107624795 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107624795 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107624795 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 29.17


Abstract:

This book explores how we can aspire to accumulate knowledge about the
language faculty in line with Feynman's 'The test of all knowledge is
experiment'. The two pillars of the proposed methodology for language faculty
science are the internalist approach advocated by Chomsky and what Feynman
calls the 'Guess-Compute-Compare' method. Taking the internalist approach, the
book is concerned with the I-language of an individual speaker. Adopting the
Guess-Compute-Compare method, it aims at deducing definite predictions and
comparing them with experimental results. It offers a conceptual articulation
of how we deduce definite predictions about the judgments of an individual
speaker on the basis of universal and language-particular hypotheses and how
we obtain experimental results precisely in accordance with such predictions.
In pursuit of rigorous testability and reproducibility, the experimental
demonstration in the book is supplemented by an accompanying website which
provides the details of all the experiments discussed in the book.

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The fundamental schematic
asymmetry; 3. Deducing definite and testable predictions; 4. Obtaining
definite and categorical experimental results; 5. Experiments in language
faculty science; 6. Illustration: experiments in English; 7. Illustration:
experiments in Japanese; 8. Summary and concluding remarks; Appendix I. List
of key concepts, hypotheses, schemata and example sentences repeatedly
referred to in the text; Appendix II. The accompanying website; Glossary.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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