Language production: A window to the mind?
(2010) Memory, Mind and Language — ISBN: [978-1-4438-1639-7], 89-102, published
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- The human mind is a black box. We know what goes into the box and what goes out, but we do not know what happens inside. However, it is generally accepted that the manifestations of the mind, in particular language, may be used as a reasonable basis to extrapolate about the mind itself, the idea being to study something unobservable by means of something observable. In this article, we will try to learn more about the cognitive phenomenon of salience by analysing two types of language production which are expected to give access to it, namely corpus data and elicitation data. Using the highly polysemous verbs give and take as a case study, we will see that spontaneous production and elicited production may point in different directions, a discrepancy which requires explanation if language production is to be seen as a window to the mind.
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Gilquin, G. (2010). Language production: A window to the mind? In Götzsche, Hans (ed.), Memory, Mind and Language (pp. 89-102). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/153990