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Revisiting the comparative fallacy: a reply to Lakshmanan and Selinker, 2001

Donna Lardiere

Georgetown University, lardiere{at}georgetown.edu

In a recent airing of methodological concerns in the analysis of spontaneous speech samples, Lakshmanan and Selinker (2001) suggest that Lardiere (1998a) should have carried out analyses of lexical aspect and discourse grounding in determining obligatory contexts for past tense marking. Failure to do so, they argue, renders the work in question susceptible to the comparative fallacy (Bley-Vroman, 1983). In this reply I would like to briefly address some of the problems with that argument, while showing that such analyses could themselves introduce a comparative fallacy problem.

Second Language Research, Vol. 19, No. 2, 129-143 (2003)
DOI: 10.1191/0267658303sr216oa
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