Approaches to Language: Data, Theory, and Explanation
The study of language has changed substantially in the last decades. In particular, the development of new technologies has allowed the emergence of new experimental techniques which complement more traditional approaches to data in linguistics (like informal reports of native speakers’ judgments, s...
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| description | The study of language has changed substantially in the last decades. In particular, the development of new technologies has allowed the emergence of new experimental techniques which complement more traditional approaches to data in linguistics (like informal reports of native speakers’ judgments, surveys, corpus studies, or fieldwork). This move is an enriching feature of contemporary linguistics, allowing for a better understanding of a phenomenon as complex as natural language, where all sorts of factors (internal and external to the individual) interact (Chomsky 2005). This has generated some sort of divergence not only in research approaches, but also in the phenomena studied, with an increasing specialization between subfields and accounts. At the same time, it has also led to subfield isolation and methodological a priori, with some researchers even claiming that theoretical linguistics has little to offer to cognitive science (see for instance Edelman & Christiansen 2003). We believe that this view of linguistics (and cognitive science as a whole) is misguided, and that the complementarity of different approaches to such a multidimensional phenomenon as language should be highlighted for convergence and further development of its scientific study (see also Jackendoff 1988, 2007; Phillips & Lasnik 2003; den Dikken, Bernstein, Tortora & Zanuttini 2007; Sprouse, Schütze & Almeida 2013; Phillips 2013). |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-738092024-04-04T19:19:07Z Approaches to Language: Data, Theory, and Explanation Gallego, Ángel J. Irurtzun, Aritz linguistics data evidence theory explanation experiments thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology The study of language has changed substantially in the last decades. In particular, the development of new technologies has allowed the emergence of new experimental techniques which complement more traditional approaches to data in linguistics (like informal reports of native speakers’ judgments, surveys, corpus studies, or fieldwork). This move is an enriching feature of contemporary linguistics, allowing for a better understanding of a phenomenon as complex as natural language, where all sorts of factors (internal and external to the individual) interact (Chomsky 2005). This has generated some sort of divergence not only in research approaches, but also in the phenomena studied, with an increasing specialization between subfields and accounts. At the same time, it has also led to subfield isolation and methodological a priori, with some researchers even claiming that theoretical linguistics has little to offer to cognitive science (see for instance Edelman & Christiansen 2003). We believe that this view of linguistics (and cognitive science as a whole) is misguided, and that the complementarity of different approaches to such a multidimensional phenomenon as language should be highlighted for convergence and further development of its scientific study (see also Jackendoff 1988, 2007; Phillips & Lasnik 2003; den Dikken, Bernstein, Tortora & Zanuttini 2007; Sprouse, Schütze & Almeida 2013; Phillips 2013). 2021-11-18T16:25:12Z 2021-11-18T16:25:12Z 2020 book ONIX_20211118_9782889636686_941 9782889636686 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/73809 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4984/approaches-to-language-data-theory-and-explanation https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4984/approaches-to-language-data-theory-and-explanation Frontiers Media SA 10.3389/978-2-88963-668-6 10.3389/978-2-88963-668-6 bf5ce210-e72e-4860-ba9b-c305640ff3ae 9782889636686 281 open access |
| spellingShingle | linguistics data evidence theory explanation experiments thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology Approaches to Language: Data, Theory, and Explanation |
| title | Approaches to Language: Data, Theory, and Explanation |
| title_full | Approaches to Language: Data, Theory, and Explanation |
| title_fullStr | Approaches to Language: Data, Theory, and Explanation |
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| title_short | Approaches to Language: Data, Theory, and Explanation |
| title_sort | approaches to language data theory and explanation |
| topic | linguistics data evidence theory explanation experiments thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
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