Dialogues on the Psychology of Language and Thought

The scope and variety of interest areas identified with psy­ cholinguistic research have grown enormously during the last decade or two. Although this recent flourishing has brought a great deal of new knowledge and interdisciplinary cooperation to the fi

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ON THE

PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

AND THOUGHT Conversations with

Noam Chomsky Charles Osgood Jean Piaget Ulric Neisser and Marcel Kinsbourne

COGNITION AND LANGUAGE

A Series in Psycho linguistics Series Editor: R. W. RIEBER CLINICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Theodore Shapiro

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DIALOGUES ON THE

PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT Conversations with

Noam Chomsky Charles Osgood Jean Piaget Ulric Neisser and Marcel Kinsbourne Edited by

ROBERT

w.

RIEBER

City University of New York and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York, New York

in collaboration with GILBERT VOYAT City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY New York, New York

PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK AND LONDON

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Main entry under title: Dialogues on the psychology of language and thought. (Cognition and language) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Psycholinguistics-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Thought and thinking-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Chomsky, Noam. II. Rieber, R. W. (Robert W.) III. Voyat, Gilbert. IV. Series. 82·42850 401'.9 P37.D52 1983 ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9310-2 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9308-9 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4615-9308-9

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Preface

The scope and variety of interest areas identified with psycholinguistic research have grown enormously during the last decade or two. Although this recent flourishing has brought a great deal of new knowledge and interdisciplinary cooperation to the field, it has also brought its share of controversy and confusion as conflicting views on a number of important topics are hotly debated by their proponents. It is for this reason that we have put together this book, a collection of interviews with a number of leading scholars within the field, all of whom differ--sometimes widely-in their respective points of view. The idea of using a uniform set of questions as points of departure for each interview seemed to us a choice method for providing readers with a better understanding .of the complexities of the field. The questions we have chosen to work with are crucial questions for psycho linguistics since they form the framework for knowledge and research within the fie