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    It is not the case that Computational implementations of transformational-generative grammar (e.g., Aspects-era parsers) were motivated by and modeled on the speaker's generative capacity, not the hearer's.

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    • 1.Chomsky distinguished between competence (shared speaker-hearer) and implementation details; the claim conflates theoretical model with implementational bias.
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    • 2.Early computational work (e.g., Winograd) applied transformational rules bidirectionally; no principled asymmetry toward production was enforced in the formalism itself.
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    • 3.The claim assumes implementation *reflects* theoretical motivation, but parsers may simply have been computationally convenient without endorsing a production-based theory.
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    • 1.Chomsky explicitly framed generative grammar as modeling competence—the speaker's internalized knowledge system—not performance or comprehension.
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    • 2.Early parsers implemented left-to-right derivations matching speech production, not right-to-left or psychologically realistic comprehension strategies.
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    • 3.The theoretical focus on *generation* (deriving well-formed sentences) presupposes a producer model; parsing was treated as mere inverse application.
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