Introduction: Formal vs. processing explanations of linguistic phenomena
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| Journal | Language and Cognitive Processes |
|---|---|
| Date | E-pub ahead of print - 22 Oct 2012 |
| Date | Published (current) - Jan 2013 |
| Issue number | 1/2 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-8 |
| Early online date | 22/10/12 |
| Original language | English |
Abstract
We summarise some of the factors affecting decisions about the status of syntactic phenomena: pragmatics, linguistic processing capacity, extra-linguistic computation, and methodology. We conclude that although there are clear-cut cases for which the decision to assign a phenomenon to processing or to irreducible syntactic principles is simple, there are many instances in which the decision is contentious.
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