The Abstractness Controversy: Experimental Input from Hindi

Abstract

If the grammars which linguists write are to reflect psychologically real constructs, then purely structural evidence is not sufficient proof of them; some form of psychological evidence is required. The psycholinguistic test described here was designed to show whether or not a Hindi word such as [g h õ:sla:] ‘nest’, which appears only in this form on the surface, has an underlying form with an ‘abstract’ , i.e. g h õ:s la:. The results show that some speakers have the abstract underlying form, others do not.

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