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The adventures of Jean Crawford, Starr Linguist

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The Logical Fallacy Project

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Events past and quite recent have gotten me thinking about logic. I’m not talking about funky symbols and math proof kind of logic. I’m talking about logic and argumentation that people use when they talk and write. And what I’ve been thinking about it is this: people have forgotten how to use logic, […]

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Grammaticality Judgement Testing Software

May 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I saw this posting for MiniJudge Software, a software that is supposed to help you create proper grammaticality judgement tasks.  Haven’t played with it yet, but it could be helpful.  And free, no excuses not to use it.
If it works, they should give it out to students before syntax classes to see how their judgements […]

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