Carruthers argues for a particular version of the cognitive function of language in his target article, where language serves to conjoin modular representations.
The non-target utterances that the children had formed by conjoining the subparts of the target system became incompatible with the longer input structures.
And yet in this aggregate weight of used-up, "dead" novels, economic value and literary quality could finally be conjoined in an act of negation.
Power and repression conjoined inside and outside the person.
All of these properties conjoined represent a cognitive tendency toward radical contextualization.
It is not enough to take the join each possible pair of clauses and conjoin them - transitive dependencies also need to be taken into account.
They provide examples of how conjoining through language might work in two domains - spatial representation and numerical representation.
An attempt at sociological realism through language use, in particular representation of dialects, was to be conjoined with the stress on proper speech.
