Imagine yourself as a field researcher sent to Africa to study lion colonies. The savannah
can be treacherous in its monotony. Inching forward through the tall grasses you suddenly …

Linguistics and psychology have always had a curious relationship. Ever since the early
days of generative linguistics when Chomsky started to argue that linguistics was a subfield …

In its earliest drafts, this paper was a structured argument, presenting a comprehensive view
of cognitive science, criticizing prevailing approaches to the study of language and thought …

Linguists are increasingly using experiments to provide insight into linguistic representations
and linguistic processing. But linguists are rarely trained to think experimentally, and …

Throughout the past five decades, both structural and generative linguists have relied on
formal or introspective judgments as sources of data. Widespread variation in such …

Experimental linguistics is about studying theories of linguistic representations based on
quantitative evidence. This evidence can be experimental in its strict sense or derived from …

This writing has a twofold purpose. One is to bring together in summary form ideas that have
been presented at various times in diverse writings, not without some slight differences …

In the present paper, I contrast empirical and non-empirical approaches to linguistics by
examining the extent to which they practice the scientific method. I provide examples of …

Those of us who study language believe that linguistics, like other behavioral sciences (the
French sciences humaines captures the nature of the disciplines), is an objective, data …

According to Noam Chomsky's well-known and influential account, linguis-tics is properly
conceived ofas a branch of cognitive psychology. Linguistics studies one aspect of the mind …