11.375, Qs: Lang Testing/Program Evaluation, Chomsky Quote

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Subject: 11.375, Qs: Lang Testing/Program Evaluation, Chomsky Quote

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Date:  Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:49:08 -0000
From:  "Mailhes, Veronica N" <vnmail at essex.ac.uk>
Subject:  Language Testing and Program Evaluation

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Date:  Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:07:20 -0800 (PST)
From:  Joseph Davis <jsphdvs at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Chomsky and statistics

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Date:  Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:49:08 -0000
From:  "Mailhes, Veronica N" <vnmail at essex.ac.uk>
Subject:  Language Testing and Program Evaluation

I'm a post graduate student at Essex University.  I'm studying MA in
Language Testing and Programme Evaluation and I need info, that is, update
literature (names of books, articles, journals) by well-known peolpe about
'Testing English for Specific Purposes Using Translation'
Thank you.


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Date:  Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:07:20 -0800 (PST)
From:  Joseph Davis <jsphdvs at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Chomsky and statistics

For a forthcoming paper on statistics in linguistics,
I would appreciate help in finding a reference.
Chomsky once dismissed the relevance of statistics in
linguistics, saying something to the effect that it
would be of little interest to find that speakers in
New York say "bagel" more often than speakers
elsewhere.  The point was that grammaticality
judgements do not depend on pragmatic frequency.  The
paper would have been pre-1985.  Thank you.

Joseph Davis
City College of New York
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