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Introduction Are Judgements Stable? Error Variance in Sentence Judgements Designing Experiments on Acceptability The Sentence Judgement Task Presenting Sentence Materials to Informants Response Methods and Scaling Issues Sampling Settings for Experiments The Organization and Construction of Questionnaires Coding and Decoding the Data Summarizing the Data Statistical Issues