Handouts - Ten Lectures on Grammar in the Mind

This series of lectures presents a synthesis of
cognitive linguistic theory and research on first and second language
acquisition, language processing, individual differences in linguistic
knowledge, and on the role of multi-word chunks and low-level schemas in
language production and comprehension. It highlights the tension between
“linguists’ grammars”, which are strongly influenced by principles such as
economy and elegance, and “speakers’ grammars”, which are often messy, less
than fully general, and sometimes inconsistent, and argues that cognitive
linguistics is an empirical science which combines study of real usage events
and experiments which rigorously test specific hypotheses.

本系列讲座综合了认知语言学理论与第一、第二语言习得研究，语言处理，语言知识个体差异研究，以及多词块和低级图式在语言生成与理解中的作用。讲座突出了‘语言学家语法’与‘说话人语法’之间的张力，前者深受经济原则和优雅性等原则的影响，而后者则常常杂乱无章，不够完全通用，有时甚至前后矛盾。讲座进一步论证，认知语言学是一门实证科学，它结合了实际使用事件的研究以及严格检验特定假设的实验。