Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Gradience in Grammar -- Part I: The Nature of Gradience -- 2 Is there Gradient Phonology? -- 3 Gradedness: Interpretive Dependencies and Beyond -- 4 Linguistic and Metalinguistic Tasks in Phonology: Methods and Findings -- 5 Intermediate Syntactic Variants in a Dialect-Standard Speech Repertoire and Relative Acceptability -- 6 Gradedness and Optionality in Mature and Developing Grammars -- 7 Decomposing Gradience: Quantitative versus Qualitative Distinctions -- Part II: Gradience in Phonology -- 8 Gradient Perception of Intonation -- 9 Prototypicality Judgements as Inverted Perception -- 10 Modelling Productivity with the Gradual Learning Algorithm: The Problem of Accidentally Exceptionless Generalizations -- Part III: Gradience in Syntax -- 11 Gradedness as Relative Efficiency in the Processing of Syntax and Semantics -- 12 Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language Processing -- 13 Degraded Acceptability and Markedness in Syntax, and the Stochastic Interpretation of Optimality Theory -- 14 Linear Optimality Theory as a Model of Gradience in Grammar -- Part IV: Gradience in Wh-Movement Constructions -- 15 Effects of Processing Difficulty on Judgements of Acceptability -- 16 What's What? -- 17 Prosodic Influence on Syntactic Judgements -- References -- Index of Languages -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Index of Subjects -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.