Some Thoughts on Data and Theory in Linguistics

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1980:605 - 609 (1980)
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Arguments for the preference of introspective judgments as evidence for syntactic theory are reviewed. A brief historical account of the origins of the presuppositions of the orthodox theory of data collection is given.

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