Psychological Reality in Phonology: A Theoretical Study

by Per Linell

Book Overview

Generative linguists have always claimed that the transformational models of language offer the best descriptive accounts of language. But they have often made a further and more ambitious claim for these models: that they have some psychological validity and represent our mental organisation of linguistic knowledge. The models are therefore supposed to explain at least some aspects of how, as speakers and listeners, we produce, perceive and understand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521104777
• ISBN13: 9780521104777
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"