Thanks, Julia, for joining in.
Julia Schwarz wrote:
>
> The appearance of –e is above chance
> but most of my tests actually involve –s as this is the
> default according to Pinker (and I’m really only trying to prove him wrong
> rather than inventing my own theory…)
This is an unfair question but... why are Pinker and Clahsen wrong?
I mean, are their data simply faulty? Or are analyzing the phenomenon
in the wrong way?
> Sorry, can anyone tell me what BBS means? (It took me long enough to figure
> out that WG stands for Word Grammar…) If it means Behavioral and Brain
> Sciences and if the article is from 1999, then I’ve already read it + some
> of the comments.
Yep, BBS = Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Thanks again,
Joe
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