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Is LF really a linguistic level?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Nick Chater
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute for Applied Cognitive Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, [email protected]

Abstract

Carruthers’ argument depends on viewing logical form as a linguistic level. But logical form is typically viewed as underpinning general purpose inference, and hence as having no particular connection to language processing. If logical form is tied directly to language, two problems arise: a logical problem concerning language acquisition and the empirical problem that aphasics appear capable of cross-modular reasoning.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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