The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax
Jon Sprouse, "The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax "
English | ISBN: 0198797729 | 2023 | 704 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0198797729 | 2023 | 704 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
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.
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