The Mouton-Ninjal Library of Linguistics [Mnll] Ser.: Theory and Practice of ...

De Gruyter

The Theory and Practice of Language Faculty ScienceAuthor(s): Hajime Hoji, Daniel Plesniak, Yukinori Takubo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter Mouton\nISBN-13: 9783110724677, 978-3110724677\nSynopsis\nThe book demonstrates that it is possible to study the language faculty with the core scientific method, [url] by deducing definite predictions from hypotheses and obtaining and replicating experimental results precisely in accordance with the predictions.\n\nIn 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 Chomskys 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 c.