THE TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE PARADIGM AND MODERN LINGUISTIC THEORY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- FOREWORD -- Table of contents -- I. SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- MEANING AND FORMSOME FALLACIES OF ASEMANTIC GRAMMAR -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- STRATIFICATIONAL SOLUTIONS TO UNBRIDGEABLE GAPS IN THE TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE PARADIGM -- TRANSLATION, IDIOMATICITY, AND MULTIPLE CODING -- THE TRANSLATION PROCESS -- POSTWORD -- REFERENCES -- NON-UNIQUENESS IN THE TREATMENT OF THE SEPARABILITY OF SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX IN COMPOUND EXPRESSIONS -- 0.0 INTRODUCTION. -- 1.0 CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPOUND NOUNS. -- 2.0 CONVENTIONAL APPROACH. -- 3.0 SYNTACTIC APPROACH. -- 4.0 SEMANTIC APPROACH. -- 5.0 CONCLUSION. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- II. PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY -- HOW GENERATIVE IS PHONOLOGY? -- 0.0 INTRODUCTION -- 1.0 TONE SANDHI IN TAIWANESE -- 2.0 THREE EXPERIMENTS -- 2.1 The First Experiment: Design -- 2.2. Subjects and instructions. -- 2.3. Results. -- 2.4. Can variable rules account for the results? -- 2.5. Base-forms-only lexicon and sur face-forms-too lexicon. -- 2.6. Why do we need surface forms in the lexicon? -- 2.7. The growth of child lexicon. -- 2.8. How does adult lexicon expand? -- 3.1. The second experiment. -- 3.2. Results. -- 3.3. Why do some rules apply more frequently than others? -- 3.4. The power of association. -- 3.5. Child language acquisition compared to adult test performance -- 4.1. The third experiment. -- 4.2. Results. -- 4.3. Degrees of detachment from real life situations. -- 4.4. The continuum of reality. -- 5.0. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- RULE-APPLICATION IN PRE-GENERATIVE AMERICAN PHONOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- PROLEGOMENA TO 'PROLEGOMENA TO A THEORY OF WORD FORMATION' A REPLY TO MORRIS HALLE -- REFERENCES -- ON THE NATURE OF MORPHOPHONEMIC ALTERNATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL VALIDITY OF CHOMSKY AND HALLE'S VOWEL SHIFT RULE -- 0.0 INTRODUCTION -- 1.0 METHOD -- 1.1 EXPERIMENT I -- 1.2. EXPERIMENT II -- 2.0. RESULTS -- 2.1. EXPERIMENT I -- 2.2. EXPERIMENT II -- 2.2.1 CONDITION I -- 2.2.2 CONDITION 2 -- 2.3. EXPERIMENTS I & II COMBINED -- 3.0. DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- III. LINGUISTIC THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE -- GENERALIZATION, ABDUCTION, EVOLUTION, AND LANGUAGE -- 1. THE STARTING POINT. -- 2. SEMANTIC ACQUISITION. -- 3. PERCEPTUAL SYSTEMS. -- 4. THE PERIPHERALLY OF SYNTAX. -- 5. ABDUCTION AND PERCEPTUAL JUDGEMENT. -- 6. ABDUCTION AND ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE. -- 7. ANDERSEN'S MODEL OF LEARNING AND CHANGE. -- 8. THE SUBTLETY OF INNATE IDEAS. -- 9. STURTEVANT'S PARADOX AND 'ONE MEANING - ONE FORM' CORRESPONDENCE -- 10. MULTILINGUALISM AS LINGUISTIC VARIATION. -- 11. EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. -- 12. UNIFORMATION IN CULTURE AND LANGUAGE. -- 13. VARIANTS AND COMUNICATI ON. -- 14. PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY AND GENERALIZATION. -- REFERENCES -- WHAT IS A GENERATIVE GRAMMAR -- REFERENCES -- ON THE INADEQUACY OF THE TREE AS A FORMAL CONCEPT IN LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS -- REFERENCES -- LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND COMMON SENSE -- ON THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND MIND -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- IV. EPISTEMOLOGY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL DILEMMAS AND THE TG PARADIGM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE PRE-WAR PRAGUE SCHOOL AND POST-WAR AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS -- REFERENCES -- TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX OF NAMES.