%0 Journal Article %A Barbiers, Sjef %T Laboratoriumzinnen in het tijdperk van de kwantitatieve taalkunde %D 2020 %J Nederlandse Taalkunde, %V 25 %N 2-3 %P 177-179 %@ 2352-1171 %R https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.002.BARB %K quantitative linguistics %K experimental linguistics %K theoretical linguistics %K grammaticality judgments %I Amsterdam University Press, %X Abstract Laboratory sentences in the era of quantitative linguistics This paper briefly compares an early (1996) and a later (2010) article that I published in Nederlandse Taalkunde, concentrating on the different methodologies underlying the two papers: A formal theoretical in-depth analysis of one idiolect in the first paper and a large-scale quantitative and theoretical approach in the second. It is argued that the two methods make different contributions and are both necessary to develop a theory of (im-)possible syntactic structures in natural language. %U https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NEDTAA2020.2-3.002.BARB