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Even though many studies in linguistics rely heavily on introspective insights, it is sometimes claimed that such first-person methods lack what Bert Peeters calls “neurocognitive depth” and, more generally, that they are inherently unscientific. While Peeters admits that introspection is a valuable source of data, he also suggests that the real measure a linguistic theory is the extent to which the...