Part 1：Methodological Issues 1
Chapter 1：Methods in search of grammar,grammar in search of methods James Myers 1
Chapter 2：Empirical methods in phonological research Michael Hammond 29
Chapter 3：Doing experimental syntax：Bridging the gap between syntactic questions and well-designed questionnaires Wayne Cowart 67
Chapter 4：Power-law distribution in morphological productivity：A statistical analysis of Chinese compounds Chao-Jan Chen 97
Part 2：Theoretical Considerations 119
Chapter 5：Distinguishing grammatical and processing explanations of syntactic acceptability Chien-Jer Charles Lin 119
Chapter 6：Testing phonological grammars with lexical data James Myers 139
Part 3：Applications 175
Chapter 7：What kind of thing is a coordinate? Wayne Cowart and Dana McDaniel 175
Chapter 8：Corpus data vs.experiments in English phonotactics Michael Hammond 215