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In their article 'Psycholinguistics without "psychological reality" ', Maria Black and Shulamit Chiat have argued the case for abandoning 'the notion of "psychological reality"' (1981: 37), pointing to 'the contradictions and non sequiturs found whenever psychological reality is mentioned'
(1981: 58, n. 9) in linguistic literature. Interestingly, the same issue of Linguistics provides us with a case in point. Roland A. Wolff (henceforth W) reports on a test intended to address the 'general question ... : To what extent does a formal grammar (a linguist's account, or model) correspond to a speaker's internalized grammar (competence)?' (1981: 3; if not otherwise indicated in the following, page references are to Wo1ff, 1981).