The links here are rather eclectic and limited, particularly the bibliographic listings. Eventually we hope to set up a searchable database of resources on grammar and evidence.
In the meantime, please send comments to lngmyers at ccu dot edu dot tw.

Upcoming conferences

• LSA Summer Institute 2007: Empirical Foundations for Theories of Language
  

  July 1-27, 2007, Stanford University (California, USA)
  Registration deadline June 1, 2007

• Texas Linguistics Society XI: The New Empiricism
  

  November 9-11, 2007, University of Texas at Austin (Texas, USA)
  Abstract deadline June 30, 2007

• Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL): Expanding the depth and width of empirical data
  

  November 30 - December 2, 2007, University of California, San Diego (California, USA)
  Abstract deadline July 1, 2007

• International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2008
  

  January 31 - February 2, 2008, University of Tübingen (Germany)
  Abstract deadline September 30, 2007

Software and corpora

• Judgments
• WebExp: Runs psychology experiments on the web (including judgment experiments) [Neil Mayo, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Florian Jaeger]
• MiniJudge: Helps design, run, and analyze quick judgment experiments [James Myers]
• Web-based judgment experiment on linguistic rhythm [Mike Hammond]
• Web-based judgment experiment on phonological well-formedness [Mike Hammond]
• Corpus analysis
• Corpora at the LINGUIST list
• The CHILDES language data exchange system
• A searchable English dictionary [Mike Hammond]
• WebCorp: Tool for running web searches to test linguistic hypotheses
• Query Google: Gets frequency counts [Bruce Hayes, Tim Ma]
• GoldVarb (Mac) [David Rand, David Sankoff] / GOLDVARB 2001 (PC) [J.S. Robinson, H.R. Lawrence, S.A. Tagliamonte] / Goldvarb X (PC & Mac) [D. Sankoff, S.A. Tagliamonte, E. Smith]: Analyzes sociolinguistic corpora
• Modeling
• Locally-encoded syllable parser [Code] [Mike Hammond]
• Praat: Phonetics software including tools for Optimality Theory learning algorithms [Paul Boersma, David Weenink]
• OTSoft: Optimality Theory Software [Bruce Hayes]
• HaLP: Harmonic grammar learner [Christopher Potts, Joe Pater, Rajesh Bhatt, Michael Becker]
• NUANCE: Fits psychological models using evolutionary algorithms [Chris Westbury, Geoff Hollis]
• Other
• Linguistic software at the LINGUIST list
• WebExp: Runs psychology experiments on the web [Neil Mayo, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Florian Jaeger]
• Linger: Runs sentence processing experiments [Doug Rohde]
• R: The most powerful free statistics program

Online materials

• Judgments
• Materials for Experimental syntax [Wayne Cowart]
• MiniJudge tutorial: Reviews the logic of syntactic judgment experiments [James Myers]
• Corpus analysis
• Corpus methods for Mandarin phonology [PDF] [Chilin Shih]
• Modeling
• Perl for linguists [Mike Hammond]
• Programs from Programming in Perl for linguists [Mike Hammond]
- gzipped tar file / zipped archive / Mac self-extracting archive
- websearch.pl program
- answers to selected exercises
- errata
• Programs from Programming in Java for linguists [Mike Hammond]
- gzipped tar file / jar file / Mac self-extracting archive / Mac binhexed self-extracting archive / zipped archive
• Other
• LSA Summer Institute 2007: Empirical Foundations for Theories of Language
• Experimental Approaches to Optimality Theory
• International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2004
• International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2006

Bibliography

• Judgments

Bailey, T. M., Hahn, U. (2001). Determinants of wordlikeness: Phonotactic or lexical neighbourhoods? Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 568-591.

Bard, E. G., Robertson, D., & Sorace, A. (1996). Magnitude estimation of linguistic acceptability. Language, 72 (1), 32-68.

Clifton, C., Fanselow, G., & Frazier, L. (2006). Amnestying superiority violations: Processing multiple questions. Linguistic Inquiry, 37, (1), 51-68.

Cowart, W. (1997). Experimental syntax: Applying objective methods to sentence judgments. London: Sage Publications.

Featherston, S. (2005a). That-trace in German. Lingua, 115 (9), 1277-1302.

Featherston, S. (2005b). Magnitude estimation and what it can do for your syntax: Some wh-constraints in German. Lingua, 115 (11),1525-1550.

Frisch, S. A., & Zawaydeh, B. A. (2001). The psychological reality of OCP-Place in Arabic. Language, 77 (1), 91-106.

Goodall, G. (2004). On the syntax and processing of wh-questions in Spanish. B. Schmeiser, V. Chand, A. Kelleher, & A. Rodriguez (Eds.) WCCFL 23 Proceedings (pp. 101-114). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Hammond, M. (1999). Lexical frequency and rhythm. In M. Darnell, E. Moravcsik, F. Newmeyer, M. Noonan, & K. Wheatley (eds.), Functionalism and formalism in linguistics, vol. 1: General papers, pp. 329-358. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Hammond, M. (2004). Gradience, phonotactics, and the lexicon in English phonology. International Journal of English Studies, 4, 1-24.

Hiramatsu, K. (2000). Accessing linguistic competence: Evidence from children's and adults' acceptability judgements. Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Keller, F. (2000). Gradience in grammar: Experimental and computational aspects of degrees of grammaticality. PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh.

Keller, F. (2003). A psychophysical law for linguistic judgments. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 652-657. Boston.

Labov, W. (1975). Empirical foundations of linguistic theory. In R. Austerlitz (Ed.) The scope of American linguistics (pp. 77-113). Lisse: The Peter de Ridder Press.

Labov, W. (1996). When intuitions fail. L. McNair (Ed.) CLS 32: Papers from the Parasession on Theory and Data in Linguistics (pp. 77-105). University of Chicago.

Luka, B. J., & Barsalou, L. W. (2005). Structural facilitation: Mere exposure effects for grammatical acceptability as evidence for syntactic priming in comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 436-459.

McDaniel, D., & Cowart, W. (1999). Experimental evidence for a minimalist account of English resumptive pronouns. Cognition, 70, B15-B24.

Myers, J., & Tsay, J. (2005). The processing of phonological acceptability judgments. Proceedings of Symposium on 90-92 NSC Projects (pp. 26-45). Taipei, Taiwan.

Ohala, J. J. (1986). Consumer's guide to evidence in phonology. Phonology Yearbook, 3, 3-26.

Phillips, C., & Lasnik, H. (2003). Linguistics and empirical evidence: Reply to Edelman and Christiansen. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7 (2), 61-62.

Schütze, C. T. (1996). The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Snyder, W. (2000). An experimental investigation of syntactic satiation effects. Linguistic Inquiry, 31, 575-582.

Sorace, A., & Keller, F. (2005). Gradience in linguistic data. Lingua, 115, 1497-1524.

Sprouse, J. (submitted). The effect of temporary representations on acceptability. University of Maryland ms.

Sprouse, J. (submitted). Syntactic satiation: Toward an etiology of linguist's disease. University of Maryland ms.

Thomason, S. (1991). Thought experiments in linguistics. In T. Horowitz & G. Massey (Eds.) Thought experiments in science and philosophy (pp. 247-257). Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Xu, L. (1996). Construction and destruction of theories by data: A case study. Chicago Linguistics Society, 32, 107-118.

• Corpus analysis

Duanmu, S. (2004). A corpus study of Chinese regulated verse: Phrasal stress and the analysis of variability. Phonology, 21, 43-89.

Lüdeling, A., Evert, S., Baroni, M. (to appear). Using Web data for linguistic purposes. In M. Hundt, C. Biewer, & N. Nesselhauf (Eds.) Corpus linguistics and the Web. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Meurers, W. D. (2004). On the use of electronic corpora for theoretical linguistics: Case studies from the syntax of German. Lingua, 115, 1619-1639.

Manning, C. D. (2003). Probabilistic syntax. In R. Bod, J. Hay, & S. Jannedy (Eds.) Probabilistic linguistics (pp. 289-341). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Manning, C., & Schütze, H. (1999). Foundations of statistical natural language processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

McEnery, T., & Wilson, A. (1996). Corpus linguistics. Edinburgh University Press.

Mendoza-Denton, N., Hay, J., & Jannedy, S. (2003). Probabilistic sociolinguistics: Beyond variable rules. In R. Bod, J. Hay, & S. Jannedy (Eds.) Probabilistic linguistics (pp. 97-138). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Renouf, A. (2003) WebCorp: Providing a renewable data source for corpus linguists. In S. Granger & S. Petch-Tyson (Eds.) Extending the scope of corpus-based research: New applications, new challenges. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Rousseau, P., & Sankoff, D. (1978). A solution to the problem of grouping speakers. In D. Sankoff (Ed.), Linguistic variation: Models and methods (pp. 97-117). Academic Press.

Sampson, G. (2001). Empirical linguistics. Continuum International.

Sankoff, D., & Rousseau, P. (1989). Statistical evidence for rule ordering. Language Variation and Change, 1, 1-18.

Uffmann, C. (2006). Epenthetic vowel quality in loanwords: Empirical and formal issues. Lingua, 116, 1079-1111.

Young, R., & Bayley, R. (1996). VARBRUL analysis for second language acquisition research. In R. Bayley & D. R. Preston (Eds.) Second language acquisition and linguistic variation (pp. 253-306). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Modeling

Boersma, P., & Hayes, B. (2001). Empirical tests of the gradual learning algorithm. Linguistic Inquiry, 32, 45-86.

Goldwater, S., & Johnson, M. (2003). Learning OT constraint rankings using a maximum entropy model. In J. Spenader, et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Stockholm Workshop on Variation within Optimality Theory (p. 111-120). Stockholm University.

Hammond, M. (2002). Programming for linguists: Java technology for language researchers. Blackwell.

Hammond, M. (2003). Programming for linguists: Perl for language researchers. Blackwell.

Keller, F. (to appear). Linear Optimality Theory as a model of gradience in grammar. In G. Fanselow et al. (eds.) Gradience in grammar: Generative perspectives. Oxford. http://roa.rutgers.edu.

Myers, J. (2002). Exemplar-driven analogy in Optimality Theory. In R. Skousen etal. (Eds.) Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language (pp. 265-300). John Benjamins.

Weinberg, A. (1999). A minimalist theory of human sentence processing. In S. D. Epstein & N. Hornstein (Eds.) Working minimalism (pp. 283-314). MIT Press.

• Other

Baayen, R. H. (2004). Statistics in psycholinguistics: A critique of some current gold standards. Mental Lexicon Working Papers, 1, 1-45. University of Alberta, Canada.

Baayen, R. H. (forthcoming). Analyzing linguistic data: A practical introduction to statistics. Cambridge University Press. [Link goes to Baayen's home page. Note that Cambridge University Press permits this draft version for electronic use only.]

Crawley, M. J. (2005). Statistics: An introduction using R. Wiley.

Derwing, Bruce L., and William J. Baker. (1978). On the re-integration of linguistics and psychology. In R. N. Campbell & P. T. Smith (Eds.), Recent advances in the psychology of language: Formal and experimental approaches (pp. 193-218). Plenum Press.

Fromkin, V. A. (1984). Evidence in linguistics. In R. H. Robins & V. A. Fromkin (Eds.) Linguistics and linguistic evidence: The LAGB Silver Jubilee Lectures 1984 (pp. 18-38). Newcastle upon Tyne: Grevatt & Grevatt.

Johnson, K. (2004). Quantitative methods in linguistics. UC Berkeley ms.

Kepser, S., & Reis, M. (2005). Linguistic evidence: Empirical, theoretical and computational perspectives. Mouton de Gruyter.

Matthews, R. J. (1991). Psychological reality of grammars. In A. Kasher (Ed.) The Chomskyan turn (pp. 182-199). Blackwell.

Miller, G. A. (1990). Linguists, psychologists and the cognitive sciences. Language, 66, 317-322.

Penke, M., & Rosenbach, A. (2004). What counts as evidence in linguistics? An introduction. Studies in Language, 28 (3), 480-526.

Vasishth, S. (2007). The foundations of statistics: A simulation-based approach. University of Potsdam ms.

Yngve, V. H., & Wasik, Z. (2004). Hard-science linguistics. Continuum International.