心理学研究对生成语法心理现实性的验证

从20世纪60年代起,乔姆斯基的"心智主义"语言观对语言学和心理学产生了巨大影响。心理学的研究走出了行为主义的条框,转而研究语言活动的内部过程和机制。由于乔姆斯基的论敌怀疑转换成语法的心理现实性,许多心理语言学家,甚至乔姆斯基本人都试图以实证的方法为"心智主义"语言观寻找支持,对生成语法的心理现实性研究贯穿生成语法所历经的短语结构语法、标准和扩展标准理论、管约论等阶段。近二十年的失语症研究结果直接或间接地为"心智主义"语言观某些基本假设提供了新的证据。

Proof of psychological reality of generative grammar:evidence from psychology researches

It was under the influence of Chomsky's"Mentalism"linguistic viewpoint that the research of psycholinguistics went out of the framework of behaviorism and undertook a sharp turning into the innate process and mechanism of verbal action. Many psycholinguists, even Chomsky himself, attempted to find the empirical proof for the psychological reality of Transformative Grammar, of which Chomsky's opponents had a strong doubt, and the research about the psycho-reality has gone side-by-side with the development of Generative Grammar . And the research of Aphasia has also provided some new evidences.