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| Title: | A program for experimental syntax: Finding the relationship between acceptability and grammatical knowlege |
| Authors: | Sprouse, Jon |
| Advisors: | Lasnik, Howard |
| Department/Program: | Linguistics |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | 0290
Language, Linguistics
experimental syntax; islands; wh-movement; magnitude estimation; acceptability judgments; satiation |
| Issue Date: | 31-Jul-2007 |
| Abstract: | There has always been interest in the methodology of acceptability judgment collection, as well as the reliability of the results. It seems, though, that the past several years have seen an increase in the number of studies employing formal experimental techniques for the collection of acceptability judgments, so much so that the term experimental syntax has come to be applied to the use of those techniques. The question this dissertation asks is whether the extent of the utility of experimental syntax is to find areas in which informal judgment collection was insufficient, or whether there is a complementary research program for experimental syntax that is more than just a methodological footnote to the informal judgment collection of theoretical syn- tax. This dissertation is a first attempt at a tentative <i>yes<\i>: the tools of experimental syntax can be used to explore the relationship between acceptability judgments and the form or nature of grammatical knowledge, not just the... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7283 |
| Appears in Collections: | Linguistics Theses and Dissertations
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