1. Introduction: Experimental linguistics in historical perspective. (by Derwig, B.L.); 2. PART I: THEORETICAL BASES FOR EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS (editorial introduction); 3. 1. On paraphrase. (by Fletcher, Paul); 4. 2. What is structural ambiguity? (by Patel, P.G.); 5. 3. On theories of focus. (by Andrew, Christine M.); 6. 4. Preliminaries to the experimental investigation of style in language. (by Marckworth, Mary Lois); 7. 5. English pluralization: A testing ground for rule evaluation. (by Derwig, B.L.); 8. PART II: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS (editorial introduction); 9. 1. Grammatical properties of sentences as a basis for concept formation. (by Baker, Will); 10. 2. Grammatical voice and illocutionary meaning in an aural concept formation task. (by Reid, J. Raymond); 11. 3. Grammatical simplicity or performative efficiency? (by Baker, Will); 12. 4. A performative definition of sentence relatedness. (by Prideaux, Gary D.); 13. 5. Paraphrase relationships among clefted sentences. (by Fletcher, Paul); 14. 6. The recognition of ambiguity. (by Prideaux, Gary D.); 15. 7. An experimental investigation of focus. (by Andrew, Christine M.); 16. 8. A discriminant function analysis of co-variation of a number of syntactic devices in five prose genres. (by Marckworth, Mary Lois); 17. 9. Rule learning and the English inflections (with special emphasis on the plural). (by Derwig, B.L.); 18. 10. Perceptual dimensions of phonemic recognition. (by Ingram, John C.L.); 19. Epilogue: An "information structure" view of language. (by Baker, Will); 20. Bibliography