Re: Corpora: Chomsky and corpus linguistics

From: James L. Fidelholtz (jfidel@siu.buap.mx)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 04:25:42 MET DST

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    On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Amanda Schiffrin wrote:

    [snip]

    >I've always seen the Generative vs. Corpus Linguistics debate
    >as analogous to Top Down vs. Bottom Up approaches (in Computing
    >for instance), or Cognitive Modelling vs. Behaviourism (in
    >Psychology). Surely one is just as valid as the other?
    >(There's nothing like living on the edge, making statements
    >like that around here... ;-)

    [snip]

    Mandy:
            I'll have to ruminate a bit over your other similes, but you
    sure as heck won't get any nice words out of me about behaviorism! I
    guess, despite all my general receptiveness to others' ideas, I'm enough
    of a dyed-in-the-wool generativist to put my foot down there.

            Jim 

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