Future Directions of Experimental Linguistics

Abstract

This paper discussed future directions of experimental linguistics. The following were discussed: (1) how experimental linguistics is positioned in relation to descriptive linguistics, when we take the tradition of experimental phonetics since Rousselot into consideration; (2) what "experiment" is in experimental linguistics; (3)a case study: an experiment whose results suggest that the semantic category plays a certain role in Japanese grammar; (4) the relationship between experiment and theory.