I like the quote, Dan. It's an empirical question: are we linguists better at self report or not? Anyone done any work on that?
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On 13/04/2011, at 6:06, "Daniel Ezra Johnson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "Bill Poser's post on the English onset of (the word) tsunami provoked
> 99 comments so far, many of them of the form "I'm from X and I say Y".
> One of the things that we've learned in the past 50 years is that the
> "I say Y" part of such statements is almost always false." - Mark
> Liberman
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