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On The Study of Linguistic Performance

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I surmise that a Colloquium such as the present one is not a bad place to take with quite a bit of salt the very notion of cognitive science-an expression I always use with some trepidation. Not only, of course, because of the well known fact that the form of words “so-and-so science” is used when there is in fact no real science covering the domain we refer to with such a “so-and-so”; other reasons suggest that some scepticism would be in order.

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