The Native Speaker is Dead!: An Informal Discussion of a Linguistic Myth with Noam Chomsky and Other Linguists, Philosophers, Psychologists, and Lexicographers |
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The inquiry opens | 1 |
Native speaker as a legal fiction | 3 |
What Quirk Quine think | 6 |
Copyright | |
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acceptable acquired arbiter of grammaticality assumption Athabaskan attained bilinguals born CASSIDY chair CHAMBERS Chomsky Chomsky's CHRISTOPHERSEN Claude Ryan competent user concept native speaker continuum Cowie criteria CRYSTAL David Crystal define definition of native degree Dept dialect discussion distinction DOCTOR G educated native speaker Eleanor Rosch Everyday Dictionary example foreign learner FORGUSON fuzzy German Gilbert Ryle GURALNIK human ideal Indian English INQUIRER intuitions judgments language acquisition language organ languages exist learning lexicographers linguist's native speaker linguistic sense meaning metaphysical mother tongue Nancy Dorian native and nonnative native language native speakership Noam Chomsky nonnative speaker NYTED Paikeday particular language person philosophy Platonic problem PROF proficient user question reality refer reification second language seems semi-speakers sentences so-called native speakers society someone speak speakers of English specified language speech suppose talking term native speaker tion Toronto unicorn University usage visual system words York Times Everyday