Language Faculty Science

An exploration of how the language faculty can be studied as exact science, providing its conceptual basis and experimental demonstration.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Hajime Hoji is Associate Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California.

Summary

Language Faculty Science explores how the language faculty can be studied as exact science, providing its conceptual basis and experimental demonstration. It proposes how we can deduce from universal and language-particular hypotheses definite predictions about acceptability judgments by individual speakers, and obtain experimental results precisely in accordance with such predictions.

Product details

• Authors: Hajime Hoji, Hajime (University of Southern California) Hoji, Hoji Hajime
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781107624795
• ISBN: 978-1-107-62479-5
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics