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Don't forget the neurobiology: An experimental approach to linguistic representation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2017
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Acceptability judgments are no longer acceptable as the holy grail for testing the nature of linguistic representations. Experimental and quantitative methods should be used to test theoretical claims in psycholinguistics. These methods should include not only behavior, but also the more recent possibilities to probe the neural codes for language-relevant representations.
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