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Marr's Levels of Analysis and the Notion of Copying
Second Language Research, v37 n3 p449-452 Jul 2021
In this commentary, I suggest that it may be helpful to think about the formidable problem space that Westergaard's (2021) Linguistic Proximity Model seeks to address at the three levels of analysis that Marr (1982) famously proposed are needed to understand any complex cognitive system. I argue that at the computational level of analysis, where it appears the Linguistic Proximity Model is epistemiologically situated, the notion of copying grammatical representations is unproblematic, contrary to Westergaard's concerns.
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Native Language, Transfer of Training, Learning Processes, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Epistemology, Computational Linguistics, Models, Language Classification, Grammar, Language Universals
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