Tlingit phonology in a generative framework : an examination of phonological processes and abstract representation ...
The Saussurean Paradox described by Labov (1971), in which "the social aspect of language can be studied by the theorist asking himself questions, while the individual aspect can only be studied by a social survey", apparently mirrors a predicament occurring in the structuralist and genera...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0094182 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0094182 |
| Summary: | The Saussurean Paradox described by Labov (1971), in which "the social aspect of language can be studied by the theorist asking himself questions, while the individual aspect can only be studied by a social survey", apparently mirrors a predicament occurring in the structuralist and generative models of linguistics. For, while descriptive and structuralist linguistic models seek to mirror the reality of particular languages, a generative model of linguistics, in a search for universals, attempts to discover the underlying reality of all languages. Since an accepted raison d'etre of the current model of linguistic science is to provide an explanatory basis for real language, it seems self-evident that both kinds of theories of language models are necessary: the inductive decision procedures of the reality-based structuralism, and the deductive discovery hypotheses of the mentalistic generative phonology. In the following Chapters, we shall attempt to explain the phonology of a particular language, which has ... |
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