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7 - Acceptability (and Other) Experiments for Studying Comparative Syntax

from Part I - General Issues in Acceptability Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2021

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Dustin A. Chacón
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Grant Goodall
Grant Goodall
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In this chapter, I discuss the relationship between acceptability judgments and other experimental techniques and the broader goals of comparative syntax. Acceptability judgment experiments quantify the impact that a small number of factors exert on acceptability across a sample of participants. By contrast, comparative syntax has typically sought to characterize systematic similarities and differences between grammatical systems, on various scales of abstraction (languages, dialects, individual grammars). In this chapter, I argue that acceptability judgment experiments can contribute to comparative syntax by quantifying subtle judgments within a language as a ”check” on intuitive judgments collected from underresourced languages, by establishing reliable trends across languages, and by exploring individual differences within a population. I emphasize that careful factorial designs, appropriate controls, and previously established, theoretically informed hypotheses are crucial to the success of applying experimental approaches to comparative syntax.

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experimental syntaxpsycholinguisticscomparative syntaxlanguage variationindividual variationacceptability judgmentscompetence-performance distinction
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The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax , pp. 181 - 208
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