Abstract The acceptability of many syntactic constructions varies across speakers. In some, but not all cases, such interspeaker variation is due to speakers coming from different dialect regions. However, since neither dialect regions nor acceptability judgments are discrete, it is not always straightforward to determine when variation in a construction’s acceptability is geographically constrained. In this paper, I present one method of making this determination using the Gi* statistic. I apply it to a variety of syntactic constructions, including presentative datives, so don’t I, be done my homework, intensifiers like wicked and hella, and do-support with have yet to sentences. Each shows a different geolinguistic profile, revealing different kinds of issues that quantitative analysis can shed light on. The results show fine-grained geolinguistic differences in syntactic acceptability judgments, demonstrating that the Gi* statistic can be fruitfully applied to further our understanding of geographically-based variation in acceptability judgments.

中文翻译：

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量化美国英语方言语法中可接受性判断中的地域差异

摘要许多语法结构的可接受性因说话者而异。在某些（但不是全部）情况下，这种说话人间的差异是由于说话人来自不同的方言地区。但是，由于方言区域和可接受性判断都不是离散的，因此确定何时在地理上限制建筑的可接受性变化并不总是那么容易。在本文中，我提出了一种使用Gi *统计量进行此确定的方法。我将其应用到各种语法结构中，包括陈述性的用法，所以我不做我的作业，邪恶的和hella之类的强化词，以及尚待判决的do-support。每一个都显示了不同的地理语言特征，揭示了定量分析可以揭示的各种问题。