Interaction & Satisfaction: Great data no one bothered to check

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Influential proposals in theoretical linguistics are often based on unreplicated data from the proponent’s own fieldwork. The field tends to accept such data reports uncritically and to immediately engage with their at times groundbreaking theoretical implications. This unskeptical attitude is, all too often, detrimental to progress. This note demonstrates the existence of this uncritical attitude and its damaging effects by concentrating on one particularly shocking case. Deal's (2015b) "Interaction and Satisfaction in ϕ-agreement" bases a theoretical innovation on novel Nez Perce data that are critically contradicted by available independent descriptions of Nez Perce and even by Deal's own 2010 dissertation. The fact that no one so far had cared to double-check such impactful data against such readily available sources does not speak well for the field, and brings out a problem that runs deeper and farther than this case alone shows.

Author(s): Tom Doubting
Year: 2020

Language: English
Tags: "Amy Rose Deal", "Nez Perce", "Deal", "Agreement", "fieldwork", "Interaction", "Satisfaction"