The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax

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This volume showcases the contributions that formal experimental methods can make to syntactic research in the 21st century. Syntactic theory is both a domain of study in its own right, and one component of an integrated theory of the cognitive neuroscience of language. It provides a theory of the mediation between sound and meaning, a theory of the representations constructed during sentence processing, and a theory of the end-state for language acquisition. Given the highly interactive nature of the theory of syntax, this volume defines "experimental syntax" in the broadest possible terms, exploring both formal experimental methods that have been part of the domain of syntax since its inception (i.e., acceptability judgment methods) and formal experimental methods that have arisen through the interaction of syntactic theory with the domains of acquisition, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax brings these methods together into a single experimental syntax volume for the first time, providing high-level reviews of major experimental work, offering guidance for researchers looking to incorporate these diverse methods into their own work, and inspiring new research that will push the boundaries of the theory of syntax. It will appeal to students and scholars from the advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields including syntax, acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. Cover Half-title EXPERIMENTALSYNTAX Copyright Contents Preface List of figures and tables The contributors Part I Judgment methods in syntactic theory Chapter 1 Acceptability judgments Chapter 2 Acceptability judgments of binding and coreference5pt Chapter 3 (Quantifier) scope judgments Chapter 4 Experimental syntax and linguistic fieldwork Annotated bibliography for Part I Part II Acquisition methods in syntactic theory Chapter 5 Behavioral acquisition methods with infants Chapter 6 Behavioral acquisition methods with preschool-age children Chapter 7 Modeling syntactic acquisition Chapter 8 Artificial language learning Annotated bibliography for Part II Part III Psycholinguistic methods in syntactic theory Chapter 9 Self-paced reading Chapter 10 Eye-tracking and experimental syntax Chapter 11 Speed–accuracy trade-off modeling and its interface with experimental syntax Chapter 12 Formal Methods in Experimental Syntax Chapter 13 Investigating syntactic structure and processing in the auditory modality Chapter 14 Language-processing experiments in the field Part IV Neurolinguistic methods in syntactic theory Chapter 15 Electrophysiological methods Chapter 16 Hemodynamic methods Chapter 17 Aphasia and syntax Annotated bibliography for Part IV Chapter 18 The future of experimental syntax Index