This text presents the results of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Structure held at Duke University. It provided an opportunity for researchers from both Japan and the US to discuss issues concerning Japanese syntactic processing.
This text presents the results of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Structure held at Duke University. It provided an opportunity for r...
Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have been in pursuit of a psychologically valid theory of grammar. To be explanatorily adequate, a theory of grammar can not only describe the general characteristics of a language but can also account for the underlying psychological processes of acquiring and processing that language. To be considered psychologically valid, a grammar must be learnable by ordinary children (the problem of acquisition) and must generate sentences that are parsable by ordinary people (the...
Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have been in pursuit of a psy...
