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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

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

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