Language Faculty Science
by Hajime Hoji /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book explores how we can aspire to accumulate knowledge about
the language faculty in line with Feynman's 'The test of all
knowledge is experiment'. The two pillars of the proposed
methodology for language faculty science are the internalist
approach advocated by Chomsky and what Feynman calls the
'Guess-Compute-Compare' method. Taking the internalist approach,
the book is concerned with the I-language of an individual speaker.
Adopting the Guess-Compute-Compare method, it aims at deducing
definite predictions and comparing them with experimental results.
It offers a conceptual articulation of how we deduce definite
predictions about the judgments of an individual speaker on the
basis of universal and language-particular hypotheses and how we
obtain experimental results precisely in accordance with such
predictions. In pursuit of rigorous testability and
reproducibility, the experimental demonstration in the book is
supplemented by an accompanying website which provides the details
of all the experiments discussed in the book.
This book explores how we can aspire to accumulate knowledge about
the language faculty in line with Feynman's 'The test of all
knowledge is experiment'. The two pillars of the proposed
methodology for language faculty science are the internalist
approach advocated by Chomsky and what Feynman calls the
'Guess-Compute-Compare' method. Taking the internalist approach,
the book is concerned with the I-language of an individual speaker.
Adopting the Guess-Compute-Compare method, it aims at deducing
definite predictions and comparing them with experimental results.
It offers a conceptual articulation of how we deduce definite
predictions about the judgments of an individual speaker on the
basis of universal and language-particular hypotheses and how we
obtain experimental results precisely in accordance with such
predictions. In pursuit of rigorous testability and
reproducibility, the experimental demonstration in the book is
supplemented by an accompanying website which provides the details
of all the experiments discussed in the book.
