The investigation and discussion of metalinguistic ability requires a firm theoretical foundation if it is to contribute to a proper account of its role in L1 and L2 performance. A framework for elaborating more rigorous accounts of this and other major issues of language acquisition and performance will be presented here as a prerequisite to discussing the role of metalinguistic knowledge. In ...

Scholars have wondered for a long time whether quantum mechanics (QM) subtends a quantum concept of truth, formalized by quantum logic (QL) and radically different from the classical (Tarskian) concept of truth. We show in this paper that QL can be obtained as a pragmatic structure LPQD of pragmatically decidable assertive formulas which formalizes the metalinguistic concept of empirical justif...

While metalinguistic awareness and speech perception have been found to each be related to numerous other linguistic processes, e.g. reading acquisition, phonological development, phonological disorders, it is only recently that the relationship between awareness and perception has been considered. Recent studies have demonstrated correlations between changes in perceptual weighting of acoustic...

Abstract The metalinguistic approach to conceptual engineering construes disputes between (what I shall call) linguistic reformers and conservatives as disagreements on how best use particular expressions. As the present paper argues, this has various merits. However, it was recently criticised in Cappelen’s seminal Fixing Language (2018). Cappelen raises an important objection against picture....

Abstract This paper raises a new form of speaker error objection to the analysis disputes as metalinguistic negotiations in cases which disputants reject that analysis. It focuses on an obvious but underexplored error: speakers’ misattribution contents both others and themselves. argues analyses posit this type are uncharitable three different ways: first, by portraying speakers mistaken interp...