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Lisa Laishen Cheng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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backward dependencies and in situ wh questions as test cases on how to approach experimental Linguistics research that pursues Theoretical Linguistics questions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Leticia Pablos, Jenny Doetjes, Lisa Laishen ChengAbstract:The empirical study of language is a young field in contemporary Linguistics. This being the case, and following a natural development process, the field is currently at a stage where different research methods and experimental approaches are being put into question in terms of their validity. Without pretending to provide an answer with respect to the best way to conduct Linguistics related experimental research, in this article we aim at examining the process that researchers follow in the design and implementation of experimental Linguistics research with a goal to validate specific Theoretical linguistic analyses. First, we discuss the general challenges that experimental work faces in finding a compromise between addressing Theoretically relevant questions and being able to implement these questions in a specific controlled experimental paradigm. We discuss the Granularity Mismatch Problem (Poeppel and Embick, 2005) which addresses the challenges that research that is trying to bridge the representations and computations of language and their psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic evidence faces, and the basic assumptions that interdisciplinary research needs to consider due to the different conceptual granularity of the objects under study. To illustrate the practical implications of the points addressed, we compare two approaches to perform linguistic experimental research by reviewing a number of our own studies strongly grounded on Theoretically informed questions. First, we show how linguistic phenomena similar at a conceptual level can be tested within the same language using measurement of event-related potentials (ERP) by discussing results from two ERP experiments on the processing of long-distance backward dependencies that involve coreference and negative polarity items respectively in Dutch. Second, we examine how the same linguistic phenomenon can be tested in different languages using reading time measures by discussing the outcome of four self-paced reading experiments on the processing of in-situ wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese and French. Finally, we review the implications that our findings have for the specific Theoretical Linguistics questions that we originally aimed to address. We conclude with an overview of the general insights that can be gained from the role of structural hierarchy and grammatical constraints in processing and the existing limitations on the generalization of results.
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Frontiers in Psychology - Backward Dependencies and in-Situ wh-Questions as Test Cases on How to Approach Experimental Linguistics Research That Pursues Theoretical Linguistics Questions
Frontiers in psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Leticia Pablos, Jenny Doetjes, Lisa Laishen ChengAbstract:The empirical study of language is a young field in contemporary Linguistics. This being the case, and following a natural development process, the field is currently at a stage where different research methods and experimental approaches are being put into question in terms of their validity. Without pretending to provide an answer with respect to the best way to conduct Linguistics related experimental research, in this article we aim at examining the process that researchers follow in the design and implementation of experimental Linguistics research with a goal to validate specific Theoretical linguistic analyses. First, we discuss the general challenges that experimental work faces in finding a compromise between addressing Theoretically relevant questions and being able to implement these questions in a specific controlled experimental paradigm. We discuss the Granularity Mismatch Problem (Poeppel and Embick, 2005) which addresses the challenges that research that is trying to bridge the representations and computations of language and their psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic evidence faces, and the basic assumptions that interdisciplinary research needs to consider due to the different conceptual granularity of the objects under study. To illustrate the practical implications of the points addressed, we compare two approaches to perform linguistic experimental research by reviewing a number of our own studies strongly grounded on Theoretically informed questions. First, we show how linguistic phenomena similar at a conceptual level can be tested within the same language using measurement of event-related potentials (ERP) by discussing results from two ERP experiments on the processing of long-distance backward dependencies that involve coreference and negative polarity items respectively in Dutch. Second, we examine how the same linguistic phenomenon can be tested in different languages using reading time measures by discussing the outcome of four self-paced reading experiments on the processing of in-situ wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese and French. Finally, we review the implications that our findings have for the specific Theoretical Linguistics questions that we originally aimed to address. We conclude with an overview of the general insights that can be gained from the role of structural hierarchy and grammatical constraints in processing and the existing limitations on the generalization of results.
Leticia Pablos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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backward dependencies and in situ wh questions as test cases on how to approach experimental Linguistics research that pursues Theoretical Linguistics questions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Leticia Pablos, Jenny Doetjes, Lisa Laishen ChengAbstract:The empirical study of language is a young field in contemporary Linguistics. This being the case, and following a natural development process, the field is currently at a stage where different research methods and experimental approaches are being put into question in terms of their validity. Without pretending to provide an answer with respect to the best way to conduct Linguistics related experimental research, in this article we aim at examining the process that researchers follow in the design and implementation of experimental Linguistics research with a goal to validate specific Theoretical linguistic analyses. First, we discuss the general challenges that experimental work faces in finding a compromise between addressing Theoretically relevant questions and being able to implement these questions in a specific controlled experimental paradigm. We discuss the Granularity Mismatch Problem (Poeppel and Embick, 2005) which addresses the challenges that research that is trying to bridge the representations and computations of language and their psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic evidence faces, and the basic assumptions that interdisciplinary research needs to consider due to the different conceptual granularity of the objects under study. To illustrate the practical implications of the points addressed, we compare two approaches to perform linguistic experimental research by reviewing a number of our own studies strongly grounded on Theoretically informed questions. First, we show how linguistic phenomena similar at a conceptual level can be tested within the same language using measurement of event-related potentials (ERP) by discussing results from two ERP experiments on the processing of long-distance backward dependencies that involve coreference and negative polarity items respectively in Dutch. Second, we examine how the same linguistic phenomenon can be tested in different languages using reading time measures by discussing the outcome of four self-paced reading experiments on the processing of in-situ wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese and French. Finally, we review the implications that our findings have for the specific Theoretical Linguistics questions that we originally aimed to address. We conclude with an overview of the general insights that can be gained from the role of structural hierarchy and grammatical constraints in processing and the existing limitations on the generalization of results.
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Frontiers in Psychology - Backward Dependencies and in-Situ wh-Questions as Test Cases on How to Approach Experimental Linguistics Research That Pursues Theoretical Linguistics Questions
Frontiers in psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Leticia Pablos, Jenny Doetjes, Lisa Laishen ChengAbstract:The empirical study of language is a young field in contemporary Linguistics. This being the case, and following a natural development process, the field is currently at a stage where different research methods and experimental approaches are being put into question in terms of their validity. Without pretending to provide an answer with respect to the best way to conduct Linguistics related experimental research, in this article we aim at examining the process that researchers follow in the design and implementation of experimental Linguistics research with a goal to validate specific Theoretical linguistic analyses. First, we discuss the general challenges that experimental work faces in finding a compromise between addressing Theoretically relevant questions and being able to implement these questions in a specific controlled experimental paradigm. We discuss the Granularity Mismatch Problem (Poeppel and Embick, 2005) which addresses the challenges that research that is trying to bridge the representations and computations of language and their psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic evidence faces, and the basic assumptions that interdisciplinary research needs to consider due to the different conceptual granularity of the objects under study. To illustrate the practical implications of the points addressed, we compare two approaches to perform linguistic experimental research by reviewing a number of our own studies strongly grounded on Theoretically informed questions. First, we show how linguistic phenomena similar at a conceptual level can be tested within the same language using measurement of event-related potentials (ERP) by discussing results from two ERP experiments on the processing of long-distance backward dependencies that involve coreference and negative polarity items respectively in Dutch. Second, we examine how the same linguistic phenomenon can be tested in different languages using reading time measures by discussing the outcome of four self-paced reading experiments on the processing of in-situ wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese and French. Finally, we review the implications that our findings have for the specific Theoretical Linguistics questions that we originally aimed to address. We conclude with an overview of the general insights that can be gained from the role of structural hierarchy and grammatical constraints in processing and the existing limitations on the generalization of results.
Rachel Lagunoff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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(Fifth Edition) by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. xvi + 544 pp.
Issues of Applied Linguistics, 1994Co-Authors: Rachel LagunoffAbstract:An Introduction to Language (Fifth Edition) by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. xvi + 544 pp. Reviewed by Rachel Lagunoff University of California, Los Angeles There have been considerable problems of communication between Theoretical Linguistics and other disciplines concerned with the study of natural language, and it seems that many psychologists, students of artificial intelligence, applied linguists, and literary critics have abandoned the idea that they could learn very much from the results reached in Theoretical Linguistics—so much the worse for Theoretical Linguistics and so much the worse for the interdisciplinary study of natural language. Peter Bosch Agreement and Anaphora In an interdisciplinary field such as applied Linguistics, it is important for students to have a good grounding in whichever base disciplines they choose to work within. Although there is debate as to how important Theoretical Linguistics is to applied Linguistics (see for example, IAL 1990), no one can deny that the study of language is central to applied linguists' concerns. Once it is agreed that the study of a particular subject is important, the next problem is how to present it to students new to the field in a way that is interesting as well as informative. Large numbers of people in our society seem to have a fear of grammar, no doubt bred in primary and secondary school classrooms~a fear which follows them well into college. Thus an introductory Linguistics textbook must be user-friendly in order to be effective. An Introduction to Language is such a textbook, the new (fifth) edition being friendlier than ever. y Issues in Applied Linguistics © Regents of the University of California ISSN 1050-4273 Vol. 5 No. 1 1994 149-154
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An Introduction to Language (Fifth Edition) by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. xvi + 544 pp.
Issues of Applied Linguistics, 1994Co-Authors: Rachel LagunoffAbstract:An Introduction to Language (Fifth Edition) by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. xvi + 544 pp. Reviewed by Rachel Lagunoff University of California, Los Angeles There have been considerable problems of communication between Theoretical Linguistics and other disciplines concerned with the study of natural language, and it seems that many psychologists, students of artificial intelligence, applied linguists, and literary critics have abandoned the idea that they could learn very much from the results reached in Theoretical Linguistics—so much the worse for Theoretical Linguistics and so much the worse for the interdisciplinary study of natural language. Peter Bosch Agreement and Anaphora In an interdisciplinary field such as applied Linguistics, it is important for students to have a good grounding in whichever base disciplines they choose to work within. Although there is debate as to how important Theoretical Linguistics is to applied Linguistics (see for example, IAL 1990), no one can deny that the study of language is central to applied linguists' concerns. Once it is agreed that the study of a particular subject is important, the next problem is how to present it to students new to the field in a way that is interesting as well as informative. Large numbers of people in our society seem to have a fear of grammar, no doubt bred in primary and secondary school classrooms~a fear which follows them well into college. Thus an introductory Linguistics textbook must be user-friendly in order to be effective. An Introduction to Language is such a textbook, the new (fifth) edition being friendlier than ever. y Issues in Applied Linguistics © Regents of the University of California ISSN 1050-4273 Vol. 5 No. 1 1994 149-154
Jenny Doetjes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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backward dependencies and in situ wh questions as test cases on how to approach experimental Linguistics research that pursues Theoretical Linguistics questions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Leticia Pablos, Jenny Doetjes, Lisa Laishen ChengAbstract:The empirical study of language is a young field in contemporary Linguistics. This being the case, and following a natural development process, the field is currently at a stage where different research methods and experimental approaches are being put into question in terms of their validity. Without pretending to provide an answer with respect to the best way to conduct Linguistics related experimental research, in this article we aim at examining the process that researchers follow in the design and implementation of experimental Linguistics research with a goal to validate specific Theoretical linguistic analyses. First, we discuss the general challenges that experimental work faces in finding a compromise between addressing Theoretically relevant questions and being able to implement these questions in a specific controlled experimental paradigm. We discuss the Granularity Mismatch Problem (Poeppel and Embick, 2005) which addresses the challenges that research that is trying to bridge the representations and computations of language and their psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic evidence faces, and the basic assumptions that interdisciplinary research needs to consider due to the different conceptual granularity of the objects under study. To illustrate the practical implications of the points addressed, we compare two approaches to perform linguistic experimental research by reviewing a number of our own studies strongly grounded on Theoretically informed questions. First, we show how linguistic phenomena similar at a conceptual level can be tested within the same language using measurement of event-related potentials (ERP) by discussing results from two ERP experiments on the processing of long-distance backward dependencies that involve coreference and negative polarity items respectively in Dutch. Second, we examine how the same linguistic phenomenon can be tested in different languages using reading time measures by discussing the outcome of four self-paced reading experiments on the processing of in-situ wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese and French. Finally, we review the implications that our findings have for the specific Theoretical Linguistics questions that we originally aimed to address. We conclude with an overview of the general insights that can be gained from the role of structural hierarchy and grammatical constraints in processing and the existing limitations on the generalization of results.
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Frontiers in Psychology - Backward Dependencies and in-Situ wh-Questions as Test Cases on How to Approach Experimental Linguistics Research That Pursues Theoretical Linguistics Questions
Frontiers in psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Leticia Pablos, Jenny Doetjes, Lisa Laishen ChengAbstract:The empirical study of language is a young field in contemporary Linguistics. This being the case, and following a natural development process, the field is currently at a stage where different research methods and experimental approaches are being put into question in terms of their validity. Without pretending to provide an answer with respect to the best way to conduct Linguistics related experimental research, in this article we aim at examining the process that researchers follow in the design and implementation of experimental Linguistics research with a goal to validate specific Theoretical linguistic analyses. First, we discuss the general challenges that experimental work faces in finding a compromise between addressing Theoretically relevant questions and being able to implement these questions in a specific controlled experimental paradigm. We discuss the Granularity Mismatch Problem (Poeppel and Embick, 2005) which addresses the challenges that research that is trying to bridge the representations and computations of language and their psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic evidence faces, and the basic assumptions that interdisciplinary research needs to consider due to the different conceptual granularity of the objects under study. To illustrate the practical implications of the points addressed, we compare two approaches to perform linguistic experimental research by reviewing a number of our own studies strongly grounded on Theoretically informed questions. First, we show how linguistic phenomena similar at a conceptual level can be tested within the same language using measurement of event-related potentials (ERP) by discussing results from two ERP experiments on the processing of long-distance backward dependencies that involve coreference and negative polarity items respectively in Dutch. Second, we examine how the same linguistic phenomenon can be tested in different languages using reading time measures by discussing the outcome of four self-paced reading experiments on the processing of in-situ wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese and French. Finally, we review the implications that our findings have for the specific Theoretical Linguistics questions that we originally aimed to address. We conclude with an overview of the general insights that can be gained from the role of structural hierarchy and grammatical constraints in processing and the existing limitations on the generalization of results.
Stefan Müller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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PACLIC - The CoreGram Project: Theoretical Linguistics, Theory Development and Verification
2016Co-Authors: Stefan MüllerAbstract:This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common core. The paper provides a general motivation for doing Theoretical Linguistics the way it is done in the CoreGram project, and is therefore not exclusively targeted at computational linguists. I argue for a constraint-based approach to language rather than a generative-enumerative one and discuss issues of formalization. Recent advantages in language acquisition research are mentioned and conclusions on how theories should be constructed are drawn. The paper discusses some of the highlights in the implemented grammars, gives a brief overview of central Theoretical concepts and their implementation in the TRALE system, and compares the CoreGram project with other multilingual grammar engineering projects.
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the coregram project Theoretical Linguistics theory development and verification
Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation, 2016Co-Authors: Stefan MüllerAbstract:This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common core. The paper provides a general motivation for doing Theoretical Linguistics the way it is done in the CoreGram project, and is therefore not exclusively targeted at computational linguists. I argue for a constraint-based approach to language rather than a generative-enumerative one and discuss issues of formalization. Recent advantages in language acquisition research are mentioned and conclusions on how theories should be constructed are drawn. The paper discusses some of the highlights in the implemented grammars, gives a brief overview of central Theoretical concepts and their implementation in the TRALE system, and compares the CoreGram project with other multilingual grammar engineering projects.
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The CoreGram project: Theoretical Linguistics, theory development and verification
Journal of Language Modelling, 2015Co-Authors: Stefan MüllerAbstract:This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common core. The paper provides a general motivation for doing Theoretical Linguistics the way it is done in the CoreGram project and therefore is not targeted at computational linguists exclusively. I argue for a constraint-based approach to language rather than a generative-enumerative one and discuss issues of formalization. Recent advantages in the language acquisition research are mentioned and conclusions on how theories should be constructed are drawn. The paper discusses some of the highlights in the implemented grammars, gives a brief overview of central Theoretical concepts and their implementation in TRALE and compares the CoreGram project with other multilingual grammar engineering projects.
