Open AccessThe psychological status of phonological analyses
Author(s) -
David Eddington
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2350-420X
pISSN - 0024-3922
DOI - 10.4312/linguistica.36.1.17-37
Subject(s) - skepticism , relevance (law) , psychology , subject (documents) , linguistics , cognitive psychology , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , political science , library science , law
This paper casts doubt on the psychological relevance of many phonological analyses. There are four reasons for this: 1) theoretical adequacy does not necessarily imply psychological significance; 2) most approaches are nonempirical in that they are not subject to potential spatiotemporal falsification; 3) phonological analyses are estab lished with little or no recourse to the speakers of the language via experimental psy chology; 4) the limited base of evidence which most analyses are founded on is further cause for skepticism.