How to deal with `the language-as-fixed-effect fallacy': Common misconceptions and alternative...

TitleHow to deal with `the language-as-fixed-effect fallacy': Common misconceptions and alternative...
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsJeroen G.W. Raaijmakers, Joseph M.C. Schrijnemakers
JournalJournal of Memory & Language
Volume41
Issue3
Pagination416
ISSN0749596X
Abstract

Discusses the critique of statistical procedures in language and memory studies, or the `language-as-fixed-effect fallacy.' Item variability's control by matching or counterbalancing; Generalization to both subject population and the language as a whole; Absence of need to perform separate subject and item analyses.

Short TitleHow to deal with `the language-as-fixed-effect fallacy'