What is it about?
Because we employ our receptive and interpretive abilities to monitor our own linguistic output and also use our formulative and expressive abilities to anticipate others' linguistic output, those abilities develop significant structural commonalities without the need for a separate process-neutral set of units and rules of the sort typically postulated by linguists.
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Why is it important?
This interactional explanation of the commonalities found between linguistic structures as results of comprehension and of production avoids the longstanding appeal to a processually neutral "grammar" as an ingredient of our linguistic abilities.
Perspectives
This publication is perhaps the shortest of many I have written in support of what I have dubbed "dialectical-processual linguistics", in which the processes of Construing and of Saying are seen as neuropsychologically and developmentally separate but in perpetual interaction thanks to constant (1) monitoring of our own output as a way of ensuring that its construal makes sense to us and (2) anticipation of others' output as a way of ensuring that we have correctly understood and are keeping up with what they are saying.
Professor H Stephen Straight
Binghamton University
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This page is a summary of: Structural Commonalities between Comprehension and Production Products of Monitoring and Anticipation, January 1982, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9099-2_25.
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