Journal article
Could Competent Speakers Really Be Ignorant of Their Language?
Croatian journal of philosophy, Vol.VI(18), pp.457-467
2006
Abstract
This paper defends the commonsense conception of linguistic competence according to which linguistic competence involves propositional knowledge of language. More specifically, the paper defends three propositions challenged by Devitt in his Ignorance of Language. First, Chomskian linguists were right to embrace this commonsense conception of linguistic competence. Second, the grammars that these linguists propose make a substantive claim about the computational processes that are presumed to constitute a speaker’s linguistic competence. Third, Chomskian linguistics is indeed a subfield of psychology, in the business of characterizing the linguistic competence of speakers.
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- Title
- Could Competent Speakers Really Be Ignorant of Their Language?
- Creators
- Robert J Matthews
- Publication Details
- Croatian journal of philosophy, Vol.VI(18), pp.457-467
- Publisher
- KruZak
- Number of pages
- 11
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems; Drexel University
- Identifiers
- 991019415769504721