The Grammar as Science Project
The National Science Foundation supported Grammar As Science Project (GAS) was conducted at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from
1991-1995. This project was a joint venture by the Stony Brook
Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science. The leading idea of
GAS is that linguistics provides a uniquely effective medium for
introducing students from a wide variety of academic backgrounds
to the principles of scientific reasoning and method. The goal
of GAS is to produce a series of educational tools for studying
language in a scientific context. GAS materials include a text
and an companion software application for syntax and linguistic
semantics.
Syntactica
is the software application designed to accompanying the text
Grammar As Science.
Currently under development is Semantics As Science, and its companion software tool
Semantica.
The GAS emphasis on developing scientific reasoning skills
has strongly guided the design of software tools. Our chief
goal has been to produce applications that lift some of
the calculative burden from the student, but leave fundamental
intellectual decisions about how to analyze a given phenomenon
squarely in the hands of the user.
GAS materials were developed in the Semantics Lab in the
Department of Linguistics, SUNY - Stony Brook.
Contact Information:
Richard K. Larson
Department of Linguistics
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York 11794-4376
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This project was supported in
part by the National Science Foundation
Questions and comments to:rlarson@semlab1.sbs.sunysb.edu 5/7/96