Empirical Methods in Linguistics
語言學實證方法

Fall 2005 * Monday 10:15-13:00 * 文學院413

NOTE NEW CHANGES IN RED!
(as of 11/22/2005)

Research & Writing Links

James Myers (麥傑)
Office: 文學院247
Tel: 31506
Email: Lngmyers at ccu dot edu dot tw
Web: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/
Office hours: Monday 3-5 pm, or by appointment

Goals

You all have already had experience with linguistic analysis. Now we'll put this experience into philosophical and historical context, expand the range of empirical methodologies somewhat beyond what you may be familiar with, and practice the logic of linguistic argumentation at a higher level.

Evaluation

30% Participation (saying interesting stuff in the discussions)
30% Discussion leading (one leader per week)
20% Presentation of own research (20 minutes; last week of class)
10% Journal submission (must show editor's acknowledgment of receipt of manuscript)
10% Exercises (relating to methodologies or argumentation; not very many)

Schedule (there may be changes along the way)

Readings should be done prior to class. [ ] marks extra readings that only the discussion leader is required to read, though everybody should bring them to class.

Week Topic Readings
9/19 Learning about language (2000)
Tweed and Lehman (2002)
9/26 What is science? Chalmers (1982)
10/3 The origins of linguistics in Europe [and China] Seuren (1998)
[Peverelli (1986)]
10/10 {no class}  
10/17 The rise of generative linguistics Harris (1993)
Anderson (1985)
10/24 Chomsky Chomsky (1957)
Chomsky (1965)
10/31 Linguistic evidence Penke and Rosenbach (2004)
[Wray et al. (1998)]
11/7 Linguistics and cognitive science Derwing and Baker (1978)
Miller (1990)
Edelman and Christiansen (2003)
Phillips and Lasnik (2003)
[Botha (1989)]
11/14 Linguistics and statistics Campbell (2001)
Butler (1998)
Woods et al. (1986)
Myers (2004)
Kirk (1995)
11/21 Evidence and argumentation in syntax Perlmutter and Soames (1979)
Schütze (1996)
[Cowart (1997)]
11/28 Evidence and argumentation in phonology Kenstowicz and Kisseberth (1979)
Ohala (1986)
12/5 Fieldwork Neidle et al. (2001)
Tung (1964)
Ann (2003)
12/12 NO CLASS
(James at conference)
12/19 Corpus linguistics McEnery and Wilson (1996)
Manning (2003)
12/20 Formalism and functionalism
(Tuesday, 10:15-1:00, R409)
Newmeyer (1998)
Noonan (1999)
Lasnik (1999)
[Biq et al. (1996), Abraham (1999), Pierrehumbert (1999)]
12/26 Modeling linguistic evidence Myers (2005)
1/2 Presentations {last class}  
1/9 NO CLASS, obviously
1/16 {Journal acknowledgment}

Readings

Abraham, Werner. 1999. Discussant paper referring to the "syntax position papers" by Howard Lasnik and Mickey Noonan. In Darnell et al. (pp. 55-86).

Anderson, Stephen R. 1985. Generative phonology and its origins. Chapter 12 of Phonology in the twentieth century (pp. 310-327). University of Chicago Press.

Ann, Jean. 2003. The Chiying School of Taiwan: A foreigner's perspective. In Leila Monaghan, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham Turner (eds.) Many ways to be deaf (pp. 230-248). Gallaudet University Press.

Biq, Yung-O, James Tai, and Sandra Thompson. 1996. Recent developments in functional approaches to Chinese. In C.-T. James Huang and Y.-H. Audrey Li (Eds.) New horizons in Chinese linguistics (pp. 97-140). Kluwer.

Botha, Rudolf P. 1989. The marshes of method. Chapter 4 of Challenging Chomsky: The generative garden game (pp. 145-195). Oxford University Press.

Butler, Chris. 1998. Statistics. Chapter 23 of Wray et al. Projects in linguistics: A practical guide to researching language (pp. 255-264). Arnold.

Campbell, Scott. 2001. The fallacy of inductive skepticism. The Skeptic 21 (1):25-30.

Chalmers, A. F. 1982. Introduction and Chapters 4-6 on falsificationism. What is this thing called science? (Second edition) (pp. xv-xix, 38-76). University of Queensland Press.

Chomsky, Noam. 1957. On the goals of linguistic theory. Chapter 6 of Syntactic structures (pp. 49-60). Mouton de Gruyter.

Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Methodological preliminaries. Chapter 1 of Aspects of the theory of syntax (pp. 3-62). MIT Press.

Cowart, Wayne. 1997. Introduction: Are judgments stable? Chapter 1 of Experimental syntax: Applying objective methods to sentence judgments (pp. 1-30). Sage Publications.

Darnell, Michael, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick Newmeyer, Michael Noonan, and Kathleen Wheatley (Eds.) Functionalism and formalism in linguistics. John Benjamins.

Derwing, Bruce L., and William J. Baker. 1978. On the re-integration of linguistics and psychology. In R. N. Campbell & P. T. Smith (Eds.), Recent advances in the psychology of language: Formal and experimental approaches (pp. 193-218). Plenum Press.

Edelman, Shimon, and Morten H. Christiansen. 2003. How seriously should we take Minimalist syntax? Trends in Cognitive Science 7 (2):60-61.

Harris, Randy Allen. 1993. Linguistics (ch. 2) and The Chomskyan revolution (ch. 3). In The linguistics wars (pp. 10-73). Oxford University Press.

Kenstowicz, Michael, and Charles Kisseberth. 1979. Evidence and motivation. Chapter 5 of Generative phonology: Description and theory (pp. 139-175). Academic Press.

Kirk, Roger E. 1995. Research strategies and the control of nuisance variables. Chapter 1 of Experimental design: Procedures for the behavioral sciences, third edition (pp. 1-25). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.

Lasnik, Howard. 1999. On the locality of movement. In Darnell et al. (pp. 33-54).

Manning, Christopher D. 2003. Probabilistic syntax. In Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, and Stefanie Jannedy. 2003. Probabilistic linguistics (pp. 289-341). MIT Press.

McEnery, Tony, and Andrew Wilson. 1996. Early corpus linguistics and the Chomskyan revolution. Chapter 1 of Corpus linguistics (pp. 1-19). Edinburgh University Press.

Miller, George A. 1990. Linguists, psychologists and the cognitive sciences. Language 66:317-322.

Myers, James. 2004. Why would linguists ever need statistics? Handout (8 pgs). NCCU ms.

Myers, James. 2005. TBA. NCCU ms.

Neidle, Carol, Judy Kegl, Dawn MacLaughlin, Benjamin Bahan, and Robert G. Lee. 2001. Methodological considerations. Chapter 2 of The syntax of American Sign Language: Functional categories and hierarchical structure (pp. 7-25). MIT Press.

Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1998. The form-function problem in linguistics. Chapter 1 of Language form and language function (pp. 1-21). MIT Press.

Noonan, Michael. 1999. Non-structuralist syntax. In Darnell et al. (pp. 11-31).

Ohala, John J. 1986. Consumer's guide to evidence in phonology. Phonology Yearbook 3:3-26.

Penke, Martina, and Anette Rosenbach. 2004. What counts as evidence in linguistics? An introduction. Studies in Language, 28 (3), 480-526.

Perlmutter, David and Scott Soames. 1979. Chapters 2-6 of Syntactic argumentation and the structure of English (pp. 8-25). University of California Press.

Peverelli, Peter Jan. 1986. Introduction. Chapter 1 of The history of modern Chinese grammar studies (pp. 1-55). PhD dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.

Phillips, Colin, and Howard Lasnik. 2003. Linguistics and empirical evidence: Reply to Edelman and Christiansen. Trends in Cognitive Science 7 (2):61-62.

Pierrehumbert, Janet. 1999. Formalizing functionalism. In Darnell et al. (pp. 287-304).

Schütze, Carson T. 1996. Definitions and historical background. Chapter 2 of The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology (pp. 19-53). University of Chicago Press.

Seuren, Pieter A. M. 1998. Linguistics from antiquity till the seventeenth century. Chapter 1 of Western linguistics: An historical introduction (pp. 3-48). Blackwell.

Tung, T'ung-ho. 1964. Introduction and Texts and translation in A descriptive study of the Tsou language, Formosa (pp. 1-6, 235-239). Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.

Tweed, Roger G., and Darrin R. Lehman. 2002. Learning considered within a cultural context: Confucian and Socratic approaches. American Psychologist 57 (2):89-99.

Woods, Anthony, Paul Fletcher, and Arthur Hughes. 1986. Why do linguists need statistics? Chapter 1 of Statistics in language studies (pp. 1-7). Cambridge University Press.

Wray, Alison, Kate Trott, and Aileen Bloomer. 1998. Techniques for collecting data. Part II of Projects in linguistics: A practical guide to researching language (pp. 151-192). Arnold.

戴浩一. 2000. 新世紀臺灣語言學研究展望. 漢學研究第18卷特刊:511-519.