In my survey I have reached at the viewpoint that perhhaps the fairest way to evaluate the over all impact of the psycholinguistics is to compare the study of langunge before and after the Chomskyan revolution.
Whereas his earlier work was more clos...
In my survey I have reached at the viewpoint that perhhaps the fairest way to evaluate the over all impact of the psycholinguistics is to compare the study of langunge before and after the Chomskyan revolution.
Whereas his earlier work was more closely confined to linguistic implications, in his later writings Chomsky draws philosophical and psychological conclusions from his theory.
A major effect of Chomsky's generative linguistics was to bring to psychologist's attention the crucial importance of linguistic creativity. By demonstrating that the competence of a language user includes the abilty to produce a potentially infinite number of possible sentences, Chomsky made psycholotists aware that ianguage is a far more complicated kind of behaviour than had hitherto been appreciated.
When trying to sum up the contribution of transformational grammar to psychology, one point that must be stressed is that the psychoiintuistic appooach has opened up totally new ways of conceptualizing language.
The applications of transfomational grammar, there have been two major developments of interest to psychologists.
The first is a proposal that the basic relations in deep structure are not those between subject and object.
The second devel opment aims at a more radical revision of transformational theory. Looking at all that remains to be discovered about the learning and use of man's most important faculty, I hope that psychologists and linguists will meet the challenge of trying to find a theory that will account for all aspects of language to be expected better development of psycholinguistics.