Discussion Details
| Title: | Review 'Chomsky's Minimalism' |
| Submitter: | Jim Fidelholtz |
| Description: | While I agree with Hinzen's comments (19.2754), there seems to me to be a
more fundamental confusion in the post he comments on, shared by many non-generativists (and occasionally some generativists), namely that the order of elements/processes/whatever in the *theory* necessarily corresponds with the order of the cognitive *processes* involved in the production/reception of language. This has never been claimed, to my knowledge, by generativists working in the Chomskyan mold, much less by Chomsky himself. Quite explicitly the contrary. And indeed, psycholinguistic experiments have clearly shown that language-hearing processing, for example, goes on in parallel at different 'levels', and as more and more of a sentence, say, comes in. |
| Date Posted: | 12-Sep-2008 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Linguistic Theories
Syntax |
| LL Issue: | 19.2785 |
| Posted: | 12-Sep-2008 |
