Language and Mind
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Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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book
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essay collection → |
| author |
Noam Chomsky
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| critiques |
behaviorism in psychology
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empiricist theories of language acquisition → |
| genre |
cognitive science
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linguistics → philosophy → philosophy of language → psychology → |
| hasAuthorRole |
Noam Chomsky as cognitive scientist
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Noam Chomsky as linguist → Noam Chomsky as philosopher → |
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essay
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| hasTheoreticalFramework |
generative grammar
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nativist theory of language → rationalist epistemology → |
| influenced |
cognitive science
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linguistics → philosophy of language → philosophy of mind → psycholinguistics → psychology → |
| language |
English
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| mainSubject |
Cartesian linguistics
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creativity of language → generative grammar → human cognition → innateness hypothesis → language → linguistic competence → linguistic theory → mind → nativism → performance (linguistics) → philosophy of mind → philosophy of psychology → psycholinguistics → rationalism → scientific study of language → universal grammar → |
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distinction between competence and performance
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existence of an innate language faculty → view of language as a creative system → |
| publisher |
Harcourt Brace & World
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Noam Chomsky
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