The Theory and Practice of Language Faculty Science

Ahead of Publication Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

The Theory and Practice of Language Faculty Science

Edited by: Hajime Hoji, Yukinori Takubo and Daniel Plesniak

Volume 3 in the series The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL]

Overview

About this book

The book demonstrates that it is possible to study the language faculty with the core scientific method, i.e., by deducing definite predictions from hypotheses and obtaining and replicating experimental results precisely in accordance with the predictions.

In light of the "reproducibility crisis" as extensively addressed in recent years in a number of fields, the demonstration that rigorous replication can be obtained in the study of the language faculty in terms of correlational and categorical predictions is particularly significant. While the claim has been made over the years that Chomsky’s research program is meant to be a scientific study of the language faculty, a conceptual and methodological articulation has never been made as to how we can accumulate our knowledge about the language faculty by the basic scientific method, including, most crucially, how exactly we can put our hypotheses to rigorous empirical and experimental test.

The book proposes how to do that by providing a conceptual basis for the methodology for language faculty science. The book also offers empirical demonstrations of the viability of the proposed methodology. The experiments were conducted with Japanese and English speakers.

Overall, the book explores new directions for the study of the mind.

Author information

Hoji Hajime, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA; Yukinori Takubo, NINJAL, Tokyo, Japan.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars of Syntax, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Function of Language in Human Cognition,Scientific Methodology
Pages
- Main content: 350
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 40
Keywords: Language Faculty Science; Categorial Prediction; Scientific Methodology; Experiments in Linguistics

eBook

Planned Publication: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110724790

Hardcover

Planned Publication: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110724677