Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
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Edited by:
Britta Stolterfoht
About this book
The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionally responded to this in two ways, either going for a fairly data-light approach and valuing theoretical creativity, or pursuing just those goals for which data is available and trusting to data-driven descriptive work.
More recently, advances in technology and experimental techniques have made data gathering easier and more accessible, so that a theoretically informed but empirically based approach is rapidly growing in popularity. This synthesis permits linguists to combine the intellectual hypothesis generation of the theoreticians with the ability to deliver hard answers of the empiricist.
This volume is a collection of papers in this direction, using mostly experiment methods to yield insights into syntactic and semantic structures, language processing, and acquisition. Papers report corpus data, neurological investigations, child language studies, and fieldwork from minority languages.
Author / Editor information
Britta Stolterfoht, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Sam Featherston, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Reviews
"In sum, this volume is highly recommended for experimental researchers and
non-experimental linguists alike who are interested in pursuing the hard data."
Darcy Sperlich in: Linguist List 24.2110
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Part 1: Methods and analysis
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Christian Pietsch, Armin Buch, Stefan Kopp and Jan de Ruiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Zhong Chen, Lena Jäger and Shravan Vasishth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Antje Müller, Claudia Roch, Tobias Stadtfeld and Tibor Kiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part 2: Applications to linguistic theory
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Lisa Matthewson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Sonja Tiemann, Vera Hohaus and Sigrid Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Petra Hendriks, Ruth Koops van ’t Jagt and John Hoeks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Janneke Huitink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Berry Claus and Olga Kriukova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Kordula De Kuthy and Walt Detmar Meurers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Sara Holler and Jutta M. Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part 3: Cognitive and neurological basis of language
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Barbara Kaup, Jana Lüdtke and Ilona Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Eleonore Schwilling, Karen Lidzba, Andreas Konietzko, Susanne Winkler and Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Susanne Reiterer, Nandini C. Singh and Susanne Winkler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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