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  • Welcome to the companion website
    • 1. Intro
      • 1.1 User manual
        • 1.1.1 What is Magnitude Estimation?
        • 1.1.2 How does Magnitude Estimation work in principle?
        • 1.1.3 Why Magnitude Estimation?
        • 1.1.4 Who can apply Magnitude Estimation?
        • 1.1.5 What fields of grammar can be analysed with Magnitude Esimation?
        • 1.1.6 What kind of results can be obtained by Magnitude Estimation?
      • 1.2 What steps to follow?
        • 1.2.1 Focus on one grammatical phenomenon
        • 1.2.2 Design your experiment
        • 1.2.3 Train your informants
        • 1.2.4 Analyse the data
        • 1.2.5 Interpret the results
      • 1.3 What are the shortcomings of Magnitude Estimation?
        • 1.3.1 Linguistic vs. line length judgments
        • 1.3.2 Careful instruction of informants
        • 1.3.3 Recruiting informants
        • 1.3.4 Validity of the method
        • 1.3.5 Statistical know-how
        • 1.3.6 Applicability to linguistics
    • 2. Magnitude Estimation in Practice: A Case Study
      • 2.1 The Grammatical Phenomenon
      • 2.2 Informants
      • 2.3 Questionnaire
    • 3. Magnitude Estimation in practice - mini project: results and interpretation
      • 3.1 Results
        • 3.1.1 Tables
        • 3.1.2 Charts
      • 3.2 Interpretation
        • 3.2.1 Individual experimental items
        • 3.2.2 Items and fillers
        • 3.2.3 Conclusion
      • 3.3 Questionairre: Magnitude Estimation
      • 3.4 British informants' acceptability judgements
      • 3.5 Study matrix
    • 4. Magnitude Estimation and the World Wide Web: useful links
    • 5. Magnitude Estimation: useful literature
    • Bibliography