This book provides a concise yet thorough introduction to methods that linguists can use to study patterns of sentence acceptability in speech.Experimental Syntaxshows how to design, execute and analyze an appropriate survey experiment for a well-formed question about a matter of fact relative to sentence acceptability. The book also examines variability and demonstrates a method by which an investigator can make principled decisions as to whether two or more informants who use atypical dialects are using the same atypical dialect.