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Converging on a theory of language through multiple methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Mónica González-Márquez ,
Michele I. Feist  and
Liane Ströbel
Mónica González-Márquez
Affiliation:
Institute for English, American and Romance Studies, RWTH-Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany. monica.gonzalez-marquez@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de liane.stroebel@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de
Michele I. Feist
Affiliation:
Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504. feist@louisiana.edu
Liane Ströbel
Affiliation:
Institute for English, American and Romance Studies, RWTH-Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany. monica.gonzalez-marquez@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de liane.stroebel@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de
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Abstract

Assuming that linguistic representation has been studied only by linguists using grammaticality judgments, Branigan & Pickering (B&P) present structural priming as a novel alternative. We show that their assumptions are incorrect for cognitive-functional linguistics, exposing converging perspectives on form/meaning pairings between generativists and cognitive-functional linguists that we hope will spark the cross-disciplinary discussion necessary to produce a cognitively plausible model of linguistic representation.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e290
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