This chapter briefly summarizes some of the most widely used experimental paradigms in the domain of grammatical development (elicited production, repetition, weird word order, priming, act-out, and preferential looking and pointing tasks) before focusing in more detail on a relatively new grammaticality judgment paradigm. This new paradigm allows children to provide graded acceptability judgments for sentences (e.g., *The magician disappeared the rabbit) and individual lexical forms of b

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Research Methods in Child Language: A Practical Guide (2011)

Page Reference: 113-132

ISBN: 9781444331240