On Drawing the Right Conclusions in Psycholinguistics: Some Critical Areas of Control in Experimental and Analytical Practice

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 64-7

Real-Time Morphology: Symbolic Rules or Analogical Networks?

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 48-6

Real bad grammar: realistic grammatical description with grammaticality

Sampson (this issue) argues for a concept of “realistic grammatical description” in which the distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences is irrelevant. In this article I also argue for a concept of “realistic grammatical description” but one in which a binary distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences is maintained. In distinguishing between the grammatical and ungrammatical, this kind of grammar differs from that proposed by Sampson, but it does share the important property that invented sentences have no role to play, either as positive or negative evidence

Theory and research in phonology: a question of alternatives

Bruce L Derwing, University of AlbertaI've asked to go first because I wanted to open this discussion with some very general remarks about the relation between theory and research . In fact, what I propose to share with you is what I consider to be the most important lesson I've learned about research. I learned it many years ago, and oddly enough I didn't learn it from a linguist, philosopher, or scholar of any official strip. Actually, I learned it from a guy named Sherlock Holmes.Ye