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TOP-DOWN VERSUS BOTTOM-UP ANALYSES OF INTERLANGUAGEDATA

A Reply to Saito

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

Richard Young  and
Brian Yandell
Richard Young
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Brian Yandell
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Abstract

We are grateful to Hidetoshi Saito for his careful and reasoned critique of the VARBRUL procedure in his article, “Dependence and Interaction in Frequency Data Analysis in SLA Research” (this issue). Saito reanalyzes Young's (1988, 1991) study of -s plural variation in the English interlanguage of native speakers of Chinese. He raises two criticisms of the statistical analyses in the original work: (a) data from all participants were lumped together, resulting in an analysis that ignores possible variation across participants; and (b) interaction between independent variables was not investigated, whereas Saito finds that an interaction term contributes to a statistical model that fits the data better than the original analysis.

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RESPONSE
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 1999 , pp. 477 - 488
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1999 Cambridge University Press

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