Editing Cognitive linguistics (section)

===Generative grammar===
{{Main|Generative grammar}}
Generative grammar functions as a source of hypotheses about language computation in the mind and brain. It is argued to be the study of 'the cognitive neuroscience of language'.<ref name="Marantz_2005">{{cite journal |last=Marantz |first=Alec |date=2005 |title=Generative linguistics within the cognitive neuroscience of language |journal=The Linguistic Review |volume=22 |issue=2–4 |pages=492–445 |doi=10.1515/tlir.2005.22.2-4.429 |citeseerx=10.1.1.718.940 |s2cid=8727463 }}</ref> Generative grammar studies behavioural instincts and the biological nature of cognitive-linguistic algorithms, providing a computational–representational theory of mind.<ref name="Boeckx_2005">{{cite journal |last=Boeckx |first=Cedric |date=2005 |title=Generative Grammar and modern cognitive science |url=http://cogsci.snu.ac.kr/jcs/issue/vol6/no1/JCS_Vol_06_+No_1++++p.+45+-+54+++++Generative+Grammar+and+Modern+Cognitive+Science.pdf |journal=Journal of Cognitive Science |volume=6 |pages=45–54 |access-date=2020-06-01 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

This in practice means that sentence analysis by linguists is taken as a way to uncover cognitive structures. It is argued that a random genetic mutation in humans has caused syntactic structures to appear in the mind. Therefore, the fact that people have language does not rely on its communicative purposes.<ref name="Hauser etal 2014">{{cite journal |last1=Hauser |first1=Mark D. |last2=Yang|first2=Charles |last3=Berwick |first3=Robert C.|last4=Tattersall|first4=Ian |last5=Ryan |first5=Michael J. |last6=Watumull |first6=Jeffrey |last7=Chomsky |first7=Noam |last8=Lewontin |first8=Richard C. |year=2014 |title=The mystery of language evolution|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|volume=5|page=401|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00401 |pmid=24847300 |pmc=4019876 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Berwick&Chomsky_2015">{{cite book |last1=Berwick|first1=Robert C. |last2=Chomsky|first2=Noam |title=Why Only Us: Language and Evolution|publisher=MIT Press|date=2015 |isbn=978-0-262-03424-1}}</ref>

For a famous example, it was argued by linguist [[Noam Chomsky]] that sentences of the type "''Is the man who is hungry ordering dinner''" are so rare that it is unlikely that children will have heard them. Since they can nonetheless produce them, it was further argued that the structure is not learned but ''acquired'' from an innate cognitive language component. Generative grammarians then took as their task to find out all about innate structures through [[introspection]] in order to form a picture of the hypothesised [[language faculty]].<ref name="Pullum&Scholz_2002">{{cite journal |last1=Pullum |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Scholz |first2=Barbara |date=2002 |title=Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments |url=http://www.ucd.ie/artspgs/research/pullum.pdf |journal=The Linguistic Review |volume=18 |issue=1–2 |pages=9–50 |doi=10.1515/tlir.19.1-2.9|s2cid=143735248 |access-date=2020-02-28 |archive-date=2021-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203111631/https://www.ucd.ie/artspgs/research/pullum.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Prefors_etal_2006">{{cite journal |last1=Prefors |first1=Amy |last2=Tenenbaum |first2=Joshua |last3=Regier |first3=Terry |date=2006 |title=Poverty of the stimulus? A rational approach |url=https://web.mit.edu/cocosci/Papers/PerforsTenenbaumRegier06.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |volume=28 |issn=1069-7977|access-date=2020-02-28 |archive-date=2020-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111235314/http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/Papers/PerforsTenenbaumRegier06.pdf|url-status=dead }}</ref> 

Generative grammar promotes a [[Modularity of mind|modular]] view of the mind, considering language as an autonomous mind module. Thus, language is separated from mathematical logic to the extent that inference cannot explain language acquisition.<ref name="Smith_2002">{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Neil |year=2002 |title=Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals. |edition=2nd |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-47517-1 }}</ref> The generative conception of human cognition is also influential in [[cognitive psychology]] and [[computer science]].<ref name="Sudkamp_1997">{{cite book |last1=Sudkamp|first1=Thomas A.|title=Languages and machines: an Introduction to the Theory of Computer Science |publisher=Addison-Wesley Longman |date=1997 |pages=569 |url=https://www.academia.edu/35731905 |isbn=978-0-201-82136-9 |access-date=2020-06-01 }}</ref>