alt Hacker NewsI don't think data collection was linguistics' greatest problem. Getting a lot of data from random places isn't going to help.
I don't think data collection was linguistics' greatest problem. Getting a lot of data from random places isn't going to help.
Having more data and being able to consistency process it actually can say a lot about the hypotheses that linguists have. All other science is evidence-based. The challenge for linguistics has been that many theorists pick and choose armchair examples rather than back their assertions up with statistical validity.