ABSTRACT
If you have worked through this book carefully, you should now be able to:
understand that different aspects of language require different descriptive concepts and methods of analysis, although some principles of analysis and hypothesis testing apply generally.
see notation not as a scary set of symbols but as a filter to help you sift general patterns from irrelevant detail.
interpret the patterns as prompts to ask further questions and as signposts to assessment and therapy.
build explicit arguments to back up your hypotheses.
recognize which evidence would go against your hypotheses.
