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The first of its kind, this Handbook provides an in-depth overview of all current issues and trends in experimental syntax.
List of contents
Introduction Grant Goodall; Part I. General Issues in Acceptability Experiments: 1. Sentence Acceptability Experiments: What, How, and Why Grant Goodall; 2. Response Methods in Acceptability Experiments Sam Featherston; 3. Approaching Gradience in Acceptability with the Tools of Signal Detection Theory Brian Dillon and Matthew Wagers; 4. Variation in Participants and Stimuli in Acceptability Experiments Jana Häussler and Tom Juzek; 5. Acceptability, Grammar, and Processing Gisbert Fanselow; 6. Satiation William Snyder; 7. Acceptability (and Other) Experiments for Studying Comparative Syntax Dustin Chacón; Part II. Experimental Studies of Specific Phenomena: 8. Resumptive Pronouns in English Chung-hye Han; 9. Island Effects Jon Sprouse and Sandra Villata; 10. The That-Trace Effect Wayne Cowart and Dana McDaniel; 11. Anaphora: Experimental Methods for Investigating Coreference Elsi Kaiser; 12. Constituent Order and Acceptability Thomas Weskott; 13. Acceptability Judgments at the Syntax-¬Semantics Interface Jesse Harris; Part III. Experimental Studies of Specific Populations and Language Families: 14. Acceptability Studies in L2 Populations Tania Ionin; 15. Judgments of Acceptability, Truth and Felicity in Child Language Rosalind Thornton; 16. Acceptability and Truth Value Judgment Studies in East Asian Languages Shin Fukuda; 17. Acceptability Experiments in Romance Languages Timothy Gupton and Tania Leal; 18. Acceptability Studies in (Non-English) Germanic Languages Markus Bader; 19. Acceptability Studies in Semitic Languages Aya Meltzer-Asscher; 20. Experimental Syntax and the Slavic Languages Arthur Stepanov; 21. Acceptability Judgments in Sign Linguistics Vadim Kimmelman; Part IV. Experimental Syntax Beyond Acceptability: 22. Theories All The Way Down: Remarks on 'Theoretical' and 'Experimental' Linguistics Colin Phillips, Nick Huang, Phoebe Gaston and Hanna Muller; 23. Eye-Tracking and Self-Paced Reading Claudia Felser; 24. Nothing Entirely New Under the Sun: ERP Responses to Manipulations of Syntax Robert Kluender; 25. Corpus Studies of Syntax Jerid Francom; 26. Syntax and Speaking Shota Momma; 27. Neuroimaging William Matchin.
Summary
Providing an up-to-date overview of a growing field, this Handbook is intended for students and researchers interested in using experimental methods to study syntax. It shows how to conduct experiments, surveys research results so far, and discusses how the increased use of experiments will impact the future of linguistic research.
