The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198797722,0198797729, 9780192518576, 0192518577

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• ISBN-10: 0192518577
• ISBN-13: 9780192518576
• Author: Jon Sprouse
  

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.

Table contents:

Part I Judgment Methods in Syntactic Theory

1. Acceptability judgments

2. Acceptability judgments of binding and coreference: Methodological considerations

3. (Quantifier) scope judgments

4. Experimental syntax and linguistic fieldwork

Part II Acquisition Methods in Syntactic Theory

5. Behavioral acquisition methods with infants

6. Behavioral acquisition methods with preschool-age children

7. Modeling syntactic acquisition

8. Artificial language learning

Part III Psycholinguistic Methods in Syntactic Theory

9. Self-paced reading

10. Eye-tracking and experimental syntax

11. Speed–accuracy trade-off modeling and its interface with experimental syntax

12. Formal methods in experimental syntax

13. Investigating syntactic structure and processing in the auditory modality

14. Language-processing experiments in the field

Part IV Neurolinguistic Methods in Syntactic Theory

15. Electrophysiological methods

16. Hemodynamic methods

17. Aphasia and syntax

18. The future of experimental syntax

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