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Besting the Sociolinguistic Interview: New Elicitation Methodology for Rare Elliptical Constructions in African American English

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This talk presents a new methodology for eliciting speech production data that allows for the study of rare syntactic constructions. While personal judgments and Likert scale ratings can sometimes misrepresent the range of true native speaker acceptability for certain constructions, the current method proves useful for confirming acceptability with production. Tracy Conner is an interdisciplinary […]

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