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Methods of Research in Experimental Syntax

Experimental syntax employs empirical methods like acceptability judgments, sentence completion tasks, reading time studies, eye-tracking, neuroimaging, corpus analysis, artificial language learning, and cross-linguistic comparisons to investigate language structure. These methods provide empirical insights into how syntax operates in the human mind, bridging theoretical analysis with experimental data to understand grammar and processing.