Three humorous episodes, reproduced here, illustrate debates that played out on the pages of Cognition under the aegis of its founding editor, Jacques Mehler. These are the formal structure of language, the mechanisms by which speech unfolds in time, and the constrained creativity of ordinary language use.

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小提琴案例

此处复制的三个幽默剧集说明了在其创始编辑雅克·梅勒 (Jacques Mehler) 主持下，在《认知》(Cognition)页面上进行的辩论。这些是语言的形式结构、言语随时间展开的机制以及日常语言使用的受限创造力。