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Pleasing linguists: A parable
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A fictional discussion between a really behaviorally oriented psychologist and his psycholinguistic colleagues on the proper study of language is described in this article, where such concepts as ambiguity, language acquisition device, surface structure, competence, and rules are taken up but not proved to be useful.About:
This article is published in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.The article was published on 1970-12-01. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Language acquisition device & Ambiguity.read more
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The role of competence theories in cognitive psychology.
TL;DR: This paper discusses several common misunderstandings regarding theories of competence and argues that the claim of the psychological reality of amechanism is only appropriate when the mechanism accounts parsimoniously for the widest possible range of empirical phenomena.
Formal analysis and functional analysis of verbal behavior: Notes on the debate between Chomsky and Skinner
TL;DR: Mehler's affirmation (Mehler, 1969, p. 3) is doubtless based essentially on the famous critique made ten years earlier by N.F. Skinner's work, Verbal Behavior (Skinner, 1957).
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Inside the black box, with apologies to pandora. a review of ulric neisser's cognitive psychology1
TL;DR: The research in cognitive psychology is certainly interesting, on the whole well executed, and very challenging as mentioned in this paper. But it is well within the scope of a behavioristic approach and it merely awaits more attention from behaviorists.
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A semiotic theory of imagery processes with experiments on an Indo-European and a Ural-Altaic language: Do speakers of different languages experience different cognitive worlds?
TL;DR: In this paper, a semiotic theory of imagery processes with experiments on an Indo-European and a Ural-Altaic language is presented, where it is argued that information transmission can exclusively take place by the transmission of geometric isomorphs.
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Are theories of competence necessary
TL;DR: The notion of competence refers to the speaker-hearer's knowledge of the language and performance refers to actual use of language in concrete situations as mentioned in this paper, and competence is defined as the ability of a speaker to apply knowledge of a language to actual performance.