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A mixed treatment of categoricity and regularity: Solutions that don't do justice to a well-exposed complexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

René Joseph Lavie*
Affiliation:
UMR 7114 Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus (MODYCO), Université Paris 10 et CNRS, 92000 Nanterre, France

Abstract:

Jackendoff's position with respect to categories (for lexical items and larger constituents) is unclear. Positing categories is (1) implausible in several respects; (2) it makes the binding problem in language seem more massive than it actually is; and (3) it makes it difficult to explain language acquisition. Waiting for connectionism to fulfill its promise, a different track is sketched which is residually symbolic, exemplarist, and analogy-based.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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