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Psychosyntax

The Nature of Grammar and its Place in the Mind

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Authors:
  1. David Pereplyotchik

    1. Department of Philosophy, Kent State University, Kent, USA

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  • Provides a detailed study of the co-evolution of syntactic theory and computational parsing models
  • Is an empirically informed philosophical account of the psychological reality of syntactic constructs
  • Presents an up-to-date discussion and philosophical critique of the subject

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 129)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. The Ontology of Language and the Methodology of Linguistics

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 1-18

  3. Cognitivism and Nominalism in the Philosophy of Linguistics

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 19-44

  4. E-Language and I-Language

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 45-68

  5. Language Acquisition and the Explanatory Adequacy Condition

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 69-84

  6. Mental Phrase Markers in Sentence Processing

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 85-123

  7. Two Attempts to Do Without Mental Phrase Markers

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 125-152

  8. Representation, Embodiment, and Subpersonal States

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 153-180

  9. Computational Models and Psychological Reality

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 181-221

  10. The Psychological Reality of Syntactic Principles

    • David Pereplyotchik
    Pages 223-280

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 281-302
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About this book

This volume examines two main questions: What is linguistics about? And how do the results of linguistic theorizing bear on inquiry in related fields, particularly in psychology? The book develops views that depart from received wisdom in both philosophy and linguistics. With regard to questions concerning the subject matter, methodological goals, and ontological commitments of formal syntactic theorizing, it argues that the cognitive conception adopted by most linguists and philosophers is not the only acceptable view, and that the arguments in its favor collapse under scrutiny.   Nevertheless, as the book shows, a detailed examination of the relevant psycholinguistic results and computational models does support the claim that the theoretical constructs of formal linguistics are operative in real-time language comprehension. These constructs fall into two categories: mental phrase markers and mental syntactic principles. Both are indeed psychologically real, but in importantly different ways. The book concludes by drawing attention to the importance of the often-elided distinction between personal and subpersonal psychological states and processes, as well as the logical character of dispositional and occurrent states. By clarifying these concepts, particularly by reference to up-and-running psychological and computational models, the book yields a richer and more satisfying perspective on the psychological reality of language.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Kent State University, Kent, USA

    David Pereplyotchik

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychosyntax

  • Book Subtitle: The Nature of Grammar and its Place in the Mind

  • Authors: David Pereplyotchik

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60066-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60064-2Published: 17 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86769-4Published: 22 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60066-6Published: 05 October 2017

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 302

  • Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics

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