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The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax

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Grant Goodall, Sam Featherston, Brian Dillon, Matthew Wagers, Jana Häussler, Tom Juzek, Gisbert Fanselow, William Snyder, Dustin Chacón, Chung-hye Han, Jon Sprouse, Sandra Villata, Wayne Cowart, Dana McDaniel, Elsi Kaiser, Thomas Weskott, Jesse Harris, Tania Ionin, Rosalind Thornton, Shin Fukuda, Timothy Gupton, Tania Leal, Markus Bader, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Arthur Stepanov, Vadim Kimmelman, Colin Phillips, Nick Huang, Phoebe Gaston, Hanna Muller, Claudia Felser, Robert Kluender, Jerid Francom, Shota Momma, William Matchin
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  • Date Published: February 2024
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108465496

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  • Experimental syntax is an area that is rapidly growing as linguistic research becomes increasingly focused on replicable language data, in both fieldwork and laboratory environments. The first of its kind, this handbook provides an in-depth overview of current issues and trends in this field, with contributions from leading international scholars. It pays special attention to sentence acceptability experiments, outlining current best practices in conducting tests, and pointing out promising new avenues for future research. Separate sections review research results from the past 20 years, covering specific syntactic phenomena and language types. The handbook also outlines other common psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods for studying syntax, comparing and contrasting them with acceptability experiments, and giving useful perspectives on the interplay between theoretical and experimental linguistics. Providing an up-to-date reference on this exciting field, it is essential reading for students and researchers in linguistics interested in using experimental methods to conduct syntactic research.

    • Reviews what has been accomplished so far in experimental syntax, with sections covering syntactic phenomena and language types
    • Makes experimental syntax accessible to readers without prior training in performing experiments
    • Provides a thoughtful perspective on future directions for syntactic research.
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    • Date Published: February 2024
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108465496
    • length: 785 pages
    • dimensions: 244 x 170 x 40 mm
    • weight: 1.329kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table 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.

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    Grant Goodall, University of California, San Diego
    Grant Goodall is Professor of Linguistics at University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the influential 1987 book Parallel Structures in Syntax and of many important articles on syntactic phenomena in English, Spanish, and other languages. In recent years, he has been at the forefront of using experimental techniques to address longstanding questions in syntactic theory.

    Contributors

    Grant Goodall, Sam Featherston, Brian Dillon, Matthew Wagers, Jana Häussler, Tom Juzek, Gisbert Fanselow, William Snyder, Dustin Chacón, Chung-hye Han, Jon Sprouse, Sandra Villata, Wayne Cowart, Dana McDaniel, Elsi Kaiser, Thomas Weskott, Jesse Harris, Tania Ionin, Rosalind Thornton, Shin Fukuda, Timothy Gupton, Tania Leal, Markus Bader, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Arthur Stepanov, Vadim Kimmelman, Colin Phillips, Nick Huang, Phoebe Gaston, Hanna Muller, Claudia Felser, Robert Kluender, Jerid Francom, Shota Momma, William Matchin

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