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Chomsky's new clothes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Werner Deutsch  and
Oliver Müller
Werner Deutsch
Affiliation:
Department of Developmental Psychology, Institute for Psychology, Technical University Braunschweig, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany{w.deutsch; omueller}@tu-bs.de
Oliver Müller
Affiliation:
Department of Developmental Psychology, Institute for Psychology, Technical University Braunschweig, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany{w.deutsch; omueller}@tu-bs.de
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Abstract

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Clahsen's view on language is intimately linked with the Chomskian distinction between competence and performance. He uses performance to verify theoretical assumptions about the underlying structure of competence. Using mostly off-line tasks, he may fail to answer the question of how language is generated and perceived in natural situations.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 1020
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press