The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology

By W. Cowart. 1997

Subfields: Linguistics

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1. Franklin Chang
2. Alexey Romanov
3. Anna Rogers
4. Anna Rumshisky
5. Samuel R. Bowman
6. Alex Warstadt
7. Amanpreet Singh

Citations in the corpus

• Neural Network Acceptability Judgments (2018, methodology): “(p.13) This has been the predominant methodology for research in generative linguistics over the last sixty years (Chomsky, 1957; Sch¨utze, 1996).”
• Revealing the Dark Secrets of BERT (2019, background): “As for CoLa (the task of predicting linguistic acceptability judgments), GLUE authors report that the human performance is only 66.4, which is explained by the problems with the underlying methodology (Schutze, 1996).”
• Avoiding dative overgeneralisation errors: semantics, statistics or both? (2014, result): “5) point out ‘‘results from acceptability judgement experiments are highly systematic across speakers and correlate with other dependent measures, presumably because the same factors affect participants’ responses across different measures’’ (Schutze, 1996; Sorace & Keller, 2005).”