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This is the personal WWW page for Hajime Hoji
Message from HH (Jan/12/2025)
I am engaged in research in language faculty science. It is planned that my current works will be posted here,
At the moment, the uploaded materials there are rather limited. That is where I plan to address the question of how language faculty science differs from linguistics, among many other questions.
Most of my research items are available at my ResearchGate page. The 51lfs.com site will in due course have comments on some of the works uploaded at the ResearchGate page.
Language Faculty Science seeks to find out about the initial state of the language faculty by the basic scientific method, i.e., via disconfirmable universal predictions, deduction of those predictions by means of a minimal number of theoretical concepts, and the pursuit of exceptionless replication, with an ultimate aim at universal reproducibility.
In our research, we try to articulate and illustrate how we can accumulate knowledge about the language faculty (the hypothesized part(s) of the mind that make(s) it possible for us to relate sounds/signs to meaning) by deducing definite predictions about an individual and obtaining experimental results about the individual precisely in line with the predictions, and replicating the experimental results with any other individual, regardless of their "languages". This is an attempt to demonstrate that part of the mind can be studied by essentially the same scientific method employed in physics.
The two pillars of the methodology pursued in this research program are commitment to the internalist and individualist conception of "language", more accurately, of the language faculty, advocated by Chomsky and what Richard Feynman calls the eGuess-Compute-Compare' method (which we consider to be the basic scientific method) (widely known as the "hypothetico-deductive method").
The Theory and Practice of Language Faculty Science (eds. Hajime Hoji, Daniel Plesniak and Yukinori Takubo) (De Gruyter Mouton) was published in November 2022 (copyrighted 2023); it is effectively a continuation of Hoji 2015 Language Faculty Science (Cambridge University Press). But, the difference between the two volumes is quite substantial -- it is the focus on "predicted correlations of schematic asymmetries" that makes it possible for us to attain what we have been wanting to achieve --, as discussed in chapters of the Mouton volume.
Due to technical problems, the URL of the website accompanying Language Faculty Science has been changed to this from what is given in Hoji 2015. |
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