Get Your Copy The Empirical Base Of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments And Linguistic Methodology Conceived By Carson T. Schütze Distributed In Hardbound

much discussion of individual studies, too little generalization or anything else, for that matter, Still, an interesting and useful overview, The most indepth treatment of grammaticality judgments in theoretical linguistics whee, I have been looking for a

book that asked exactly the questions this book does for several years:

How do linguist's intuitions about grammaticality serve as evidence for unconscious syntactic knowledge

What kinds of bias or confounds are present in the standard ways that linguistic intuitions are elicited

What can be done to control for these biases

The author doesn't spend a lot of time proposing solutions to these problemsthe achievement is in asking them in a clear way and making it clear that the questions haven't really been answered and that they need to be.


There are obvious parallels between the kinds of bias found in intuitions about syntax as there are about the intuitions in semantic debates about contextualism.


Grammaticality judgmentsintuitions about the wellformedness of sentencesoften rest on subtle discriminations that are notoriously unstable and unreliable.
Carson T. Schütze presents a detailed critical overview of the vast literature on the nature and utility of grammaticality judgments and other linguistic intuitions, and the ways they have been used in linguistic research.
He shows how variation in the judgment process can arise and assesses the status of judgments as reliable indicators of a speaker's grammar.


Integrating substantive and methodological findings, Schütze proposes a model in which judgments result from interactions of linguistic competence with general cognitive processes, and offers practical suggestions about collecting more useful data.
The result is a work of importance to linguists, cognitive psychologists, and philosophers of language alike,
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