[原创]Introspection, elicitatition & corpus

[xiaoz]

Data collection

Charles F. Meyer, University of Massachusetts Boston
Gerald Nelson, University College London

In in B. Aarts and A. McMahon (eds) The Handbook of English Linguistics, Blackwell, Oxford (forthcoming).

http://forum.corpus4u.org/upload/forum/2005062000124576.pdf

[xujiajin]

Data collection is an important topic in corpus building. I have a manuscript on this topic too. I will put it in spoken corpora board, because my focus is on speech data collection.

[xiaoz]

Introspective data: one individual's (possibly biased) intuitions, monitoring one's own language production

Elicited data: intuitions of a small number of informants, aware of what is being tested on

Corpus data: a pool of the intuitions of a large number of speakers, naturally occurring language production

It's up to you to decide which data is more reliable while keeping in mind that corpora and intuitions are complementary.

[xujiajin]

agree!