Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methods

Gibbs, Raymond W.

doi:10.1075/hcp.18.06gib

In:Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg †, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey
[Human Cognitive Processing 18] 2007
► pp. 2–18

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Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methods

Raymond W. Gibbs

Published online: 28 June 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.18.06gib

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