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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>I initiated the thread with the above topic more than a week ago,
and the discussion has long petered out. I thank everybody who
took part in it. I had intended to summarize the discussion in a
concluding post to this thread. However, and this is why it took
me so long, I tried to integrate all of the observations and
suggestions in a set of webpages devoted to the problem of
linguistic representations. Small surprise, this was not feasible
in two days. Those who are interested in the product may have a
look at</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/representations/index.php?open=orthograph_examples.inc">https://christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/representations/index.php?open=orthograph_examples.inc</a></p>
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Several among you will find their observations integrated there.
Any kind of criticism or enhancement will be highly welcome.</p>
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Just a remark on Peter's contribution: I fully back your
observation that we need some basic
agreements on several aspects of linguistic methodology. It is of
the
utmost importance that science be free. But free does not mean
arbitrary. Science also needs quality standards. Methodology,
especially its „lower levels“ like representation of linguistic
data, is <span lang="en-US">susceptible of standardization
without
any prejudice to freedom of science. On the contrary, it would </span><span
lang="en-US">free
researchers from routine problems and</span><span lang="en-US">
contribute to objectivizing procedures and results </span><span
lang="en-US">of
scientific work.</span></p>
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<p>Christian<br>
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