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The first type of linguistic experiment aims to investigate language production, all the manifestations of language that are produced by individuals in a certain language. Although these manifestations can be collected from diverse corpora and then studied through corpus analysis (see Zufferey (2020) for a detailed presentation of these methods), in some cases, the data contained in the corpus is not enough for studying a linguistic phenomenon. Some rare phenomena practically do not appear, if at all, in a corpus. What is more, the use of observation of naturally produced data is not suitable for showing the influence of a variable on the emergence of a specific linguistic phenomenon, as we have already seen. To counter this, different experiments can be implemented in order to study the production of linguistic phenomena. In these experiments, the goal is to purposefully elicit the emergence of certain linguistic structures, while controlling the context in which such structures appear. The experimental study of linguistic production will be described in further detail in Chapter 3.