Data and grammar: Means and individuals
Data and grammar: Means and individuals
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数据和语法：手段和个体
DOI：
10.1515/tl.2007.022
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发表时间：
2007
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
R. Zanuttini
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作者：
Marcel den Dikken;Judy B. Bernstein;C. Tortora;R. Zanuttini
摘要1。在他的目标文章的摘要中，Featherston指出：“句法理论不再是根据一个人的判断的证据来构建的。我们认为是Featherston的说法，即单个发言人的法官本质上是不可靠的和“嘈杂的”，应通过平均法官来平滑个人法官之间的差异大量的线人，只有这种黄金是真正的数据。 - 语言社区的语言。我们的评论。
Abstract 1. Introduction In the abstract of his target piece, Featherston states that ‘it is no longer tenable for syntactic theories to be constructed on the evidence of a single person's judgements’. In our commentary, we focus on this issue and on (what we perceive to be) Featherston's claims that individual speakers' judgments are intrinsically unreliable and ‘noisy’, that variation among individuals' judgments should be smoothed out by averaging the judgments of a large pool of informants, and that only this golden mean counts as genuine data. We argue that these claims are at odds with the basic premises of Chomskian linguistics, which is centered on the I-language of the individual speaker/hearer, not the E-language of the speech community. This is not to say that the way generative grammar approaches and accumulates its data is in no need of improvement: we will make some specific recommendations of our own to this end in the last section of our commentary.