Comment on Academic Cliques

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:10:54 GMT

Having said that, there's a paper somewhere showing that individual linguists' grammaticality judgements are just as good as taking a large survey in the vast majority of cases.

That's roughly what I've heard too. Sadly, language seems to be unusual in this regard, and in most fields asking a few of your friends is not a reliable method.

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