The fruits of empirical linguistics Vol. 1. Process / ed. by Sam Featherston ; Susanne Winkler

The contributions to The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1: Process reveal why the data-driven approach makes for a research environment which is fast-moving and democratic: technological change has made the sources of linguistic data readily accessible. These contributions show the methods both professional and student linguists are using to gather more evidence more easily than before. Frontmatter ......Page 2 Table of contents......Page 6 Empirical linguistics: Process and product......Page 8 Linguistic choices vs. probabilities – how much and what can linguistic theory explain?......Page 16 How to provide exactly one interpretation for every sentence, or what eye movements reveal about quantifier scope......Page 40 A scale for measuring well-formedness: Why syntax needs boiling and freezing points......Page 62 The thin line between facts and fiction......Page 90 Annotating genericity: How do humans decide? (A case study in ontology extraction)......Page 118 Canonicity in argument realization and verb semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease......Page 138 Automated collection and analysis of phonological data......Page 166 Semantic evidence and syntactic theory......Page 192 Automated support for evidence retrieval in documents with nonstandard orthography......Page 226 Scaling issues in the measurement of linguistic acceptability......Page 244 Conjoint analysis in linguistics – Multi-factorial analysis of Slavonic possessive adjectives......Page 262 V. 1. Process -- V. 2. Product. Edited By Sam Featherston, Susanne Winkler. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.