The Theory and Practice of Language Faculty Science /

The Theory and Practice of Language Faculty Science / / ed. by Hajime Hoji, Yukinori Takubo, Daniel Plesniak.

The book demonstrates that it is possible to study the language faculty with the core scientific method, i.e., by deducing definite predictions from hypotheses and obtaining and replicating experimental results precisely in accordance with the predictions.In light of the "reproducibility crisis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Hoji, Hajime,
Mukai, Emi,
Plesniak, Daniel,
Ueyama, Ayumi,
HerausgeberIn:
Hoji, Hajime,
Plesniak, Daniel,
Takubo, Yukinori,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL] , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 458 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Series Preface
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part 1: The Past History of Our Attempts to Detect C-command
  • From Compatibility to Testability – Some Historical Background
  • On Non-individual-denoting So-words
  • Research Heuristics in Language Faculty Science
  • Part 2: The Correlational Approach
  • The Key Tenets of Language Faculty Science
  • Detection of C-command Effects
  • Replication: Predicted Correlations of Judgments in Japanese
  • Predicted Correlations of Judgments in English
  • Implementing Experiments on the Language Faculty
  • Part 3: LFS as an Exact Science
  • Language Faculty Science and Physics
  • Conclusion: Why Language Faculty Science?
  • Index

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