Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 Preface
5 1 Experimental Linguistics: General Principles 1.1. The scientific process 1.2. Characteristics of experimental research 1.3. Types of experiment in experimental linguistics 1.4. Advantages and disadvantages of experimental linguistics 1.5. Where to access research on experimental linguistics 1.6. Conclusion 1.7. Revision questions and answer key 1.8. Further reading
6 2 Building a Valid and Reliable Experiment 2.1. Validity and reliability of an experiment 2.2. Independent and dependent variables 2.3. Different measurement scales for variables 2.4. Operationalizing variables 2.5. Choosing a measure for every variable 2.6. Notions of reliability and validity of measurements 2.7. Choosing the modalities of independent variables 2.8. Identifying and controlling external and confounding variables . . . . 2.9. Conclusion 2.10. Revision questions and answer key
7 3 Studying Linguistic Productions 3.1. Differences between language comprehension and language production 3.2. Corpora and experiments as tools for studying production 3.3. Free elicitation tasks 3.4. Constrained elicitation tasks 3.5. Repetition tasks 3.6. Conclusion 3.7. Revision questions and answer key 3.8. Further reading
8 4 Offline Methods for Studying Language Comprehension 4.1. Explicit tasks 4.2. Implicit tasks 4.3. Conclusion 4.4. Revision questions and answer key 4.5. Further reading
9 5 Online Methods for Studying Language Comprehension 5.1. Think-aloud protocols 5.2. Using time as an indicator of comprehension 5.3. Priming 5.4. Lexical decision tasks 5.5. Naming tasks 5.6. Stroop task 5.7. Verification task 5.8. The self-paced reading paradigm 5.9. Eye-tracking 5.10. The visual world paradigm 5.11. Conclusion 5.12. Revision questions and answer key 5.13. Further reading
10 6 Practical Aspects for Designing an Experiment 6.1. Searching scientific literature and getting access to bibliographic resources 6.2. Conceptualizing and formulating the research hypothesis 6.3. Choosing the experimental design 6.4. Building the experimental material 6.5. Building the experiment 6.6. Data collection 6.7. Ethical principles 6.8. Conclusion 6.9. Revision questions and answer key 6.10. Further reading
11 7 Introduction to Quantitative Data Processing and Analysis 7.1. Preliminary observations 7.2.
