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Syntactic and semantic data: replication results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Guy Carden
Guy Carden
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Yale University
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Substantially all recent work in syntax and semantics is based on the linguist's introspective judgments of meaning and grammaticality. As is well known (cf. Labov 1972: 197ff.), other linguists often disagree with the original judgments; and such disagreements are, if anything, more common on examples of major theoretical importance. These disagreements cast doubt on introspection as a primary method for data collection, which in turn casts doubt on all the recent theoretical work using this methodology. It is therefore a crucial problem to develop an improved methodology to control or replace the use of the linguist's introspection.

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Language in Society , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , April 1976 , pp. 99 - 104
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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