What are linguistic representations?
David Adger
August 2021
 

Linguistic representations are taken by some to be representations of something, specifically of Standard Linguistic Entities, such as phonemes, clauses, noun phrases etc. This perspective takes them to be intentional. Rey (2021) further argues that the SLEs themselves are inexistent. Here I argue that linguistic representations are simply structures, abstractions of brain states, and hence not intentional, and show how they nevertheless connect to the systems that use them.
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Published in: Mind and Language
keywords: terminology, ontology, representations, syntax, phonology, semantics, syntax, phonology
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