Transformations as Mental Operations: A Reply to Kuczaj.

Fay, David

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Publication Date: 1978

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Transformations as Mental Operations: A Reply to Kuczaj

Fay, David

Journal of Child Language, 5, 1, 143-9, Feb 78

Kuczaj challenged the hypotheses that young children construct utterances by applying transformation rules to an abstract underlying structure. It is contended that Kuczaj's alternative hypotheses do not account for Hurford's data, and some of Kuczaj's new evidence actually supports the Transformational Hypothesis. (SW)

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics, Speech Communication, Transformational Generative Grammar

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