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TY - CHAP
T1 - Experimental methods
AU - Rebuschat, Patrick
AU - Casaponsa, Aina
PY - 2022/12/30
Y1 - 2022/12/30
N2 - The use of experimental methods to study linguistic phenomena has increased exponentially in the last decades. As a result, students in linguistics frequently find themselves reading experimental reports or developing experimental studies for their dissertations, often without any formal training on how to design and run experiments. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the study of language using experimental methods. In doing so, we first describe fundamental principles underpinning experimental research and key characteristics of controlled, or ‘true’, experiments. We then discuss two types of design that students are very likely to encounter in the experimental literature. Our chapter concludes with an outline of the basic steps involved in conducting an experimental study (e.g. in the context of an undergraduate dissertation). Our goal is to supply readers with the tools for understanding scientific papers and evaluate their validity, as well as an initial resource to which they can turn when developing their own research assignments.
AB - The use of experimental methods to study linguistic phenomena has increased exponentially in the last decades. As a result, students in linguistics frequently find themselves reading experimental reports or developing experimental studies for their dissertations, often without any formal training on how to design and run experiments. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the study of language using experimental methods. In doing so, we first describe fundamental principles underpinning experimental research and key characteristics of controlled, or ‘true’, experiments. We then discuss two types of design that students are very likely to encounter in the experimental literature. Our chapter concludes with an outline of the basic steps involved in conducting an experimental study (e.g. in the context of an undergraduate dissertation). Our goal is to supply readers with the tools for understanding scientific papers and evaluate their validity, as well as an initial resource to which they can turn when developing their own research assignments.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367493011
SN - 9780367493028
SP - 368
EP - 382
BT - Introducing Linguistics
A2 - Culpeper, Jonathan
A2 - Malory, Beth
A2 - Nance, Claire
A2 - Van Olmen, Daniel
A2 - Atanasova, Dimitrinka
A2 - Kirkham, Sam
A2 - Casaponsa, Aina
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -