Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sentence acceptability experiments : what, how, and why / Grant Goodall -- Response methods in acceptability experiments / Sam Featherston -- Approaching gradience in acceptability with the tools of signal detection theory / Brian Dillon and Matthew Wagers -- Variation in participants and stimuli in acceptability experiments / Jana Häussler and Tom Juzek -- Acceptability, grammar, and processing / Gisbert Fanselow -- Satiation / William Snyder -- Acceptability (and other) experiments for studying comparative syntax / Dustin Chacón -- Resumptive pronouns in English / Chung-hye Han -- Island effects / Jon Sprouse and Sandra Villata -- The that-trace effect / Wayne Cowart and Dana McDaniel -- Anaphora : experimental methods for investigating coreference / Elsi Kaiser -- Constituent order and acceptability / Thomas Weskott -- Acceptability judgments at the syntax-semantics interface / Jesse Harris -- Acceptability studies in L2 populations / Tania Ionin -- Judgments of acceptability, truth and felicity in child language / Rosalind Thornton -- Acceptability and truth value judgment studies in East Asian languages / Shin Fukuda -- Acceptability experiments in Romance languages / Timothy Gupton and Tania Leal -- Acceptability studies in (non-English) Germanic languages / Markus Bader -- Acceptability studies in Semitic languages / Aya Meltzer-Asscher -- Experimental syntax and the Slavic languages / Arthur Stepanov -- Acceptability judgments in sign linguistics / Vadim Kimmelman -- Theories all the way down : remarks on 'theoretical' and 'experimental' linguistics / Colin Phillips, Nick Huang, Phoebe Gaston and Hanna Muller -- Eye-tracking and self-paced reading / Claudia Felser -- Nothing entirely new under the sun : ERP responses to manipulations of syntax / Robert Kluender -- Corpus studies of syntax / Jerid Francom -- Syntax and speaking / Shota Momma -- Neuroimaging / William Matchin.