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In order to construct a chart analysing texts the psycholinguist is confronted with a methodological alternative: either to work from the facts of the corpus without considering anything as residual or else from a formalised system projected onto the observed performances. In the first case, one does not escape the fact that each observation selects from a continuum according to pre-formed knowledge. The second method explains this knowledge in a model but the risk of producing an artefact is not avoided to the same extent.
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Waaub, J.M. (1982). A Metalanguage of Syntactic Description. In: Lowenthal, F., Vandamme, F., Cordier, J. (eds) Language and Language Acquisition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9099-2_13
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