Linguistics 490--Chomskyan
Linguistics
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Characterizations of American
Structuralism
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Corpus-based
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Examples from observation, not from
introspection
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Taxonomic: no universals
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Bottom-Up: phonetics, phonology, etc…
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Each level is autonomous
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Based on early 1900s ideas: behaviorism,
tabula rasa
, empiricism