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The acceptability judgment of Chinese pseudo-modifiers with and without a sentential context [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 This paper investigates a particular type of non-canonical construction in Mandarin Chinese displaying an apparent semantics-syntax mismatch. We conducted an acceptability judgment experiment on native Mandarin speakers to evaluate whether such sequences
Tao Gong, Lan Shuai, Yicheng Wu
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Using audio stimuli in acceptability judgment experiments [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2020 Abstract In this paper, we argue that moving away from written stimuli in acceptability judgment experiments is necessary to address the systematic exclusion of particular empirical phenomena, languages/varieties, and speakers in psycholinguistics.
Yourdanis, Savithry Namboodiripad
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Design sensitivity and statistical power in acceptability judgment experiments
Glossa, 2017 Previous investigations into the validity of acceptability judgment data have focused almost exclusively on type I errors (or false positives) because of the consequences of such errors for syntactic theories (Sprouse & Almeida 2012; Sprouse et al ...
Jon Sprouse, Diogo Almeida
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Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
Glossa, 2021 Even though the weakening of the subjunctive disjoint reference effect, also known as obviation, plays an important role in the research of subjunctives in (non-)Romance languages, to the best of our knowledge it has never been verified experimentally ...
Ingo Feldhausen, Sebastian Buchczyk
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The effect of three basic task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment tasks
Glossa, 2020 Sprouse and Almeida (2017) provide a first systematic investigation of the sensitivity of four acceptability judgment tasks. In this project, we build on these results by decomposing those tasks into three constituent task features (single versus joint ...
Paul Marty, Emmanuel Chemla, Jon Sprouse
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Correction: The acceptability judgment of Chinese pseudo-modifiers with and without a sentential context. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219896.].
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Acceptability judgments and linguistic competence
Revista Linguística, 2015 Acceptability judgments are the primary source of data for linguistic theory, based on the assumption that they reliably reflect linguistic competence.
Kumiko Murasugi
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Frontiers in CommunicationThis study presents an Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) conducted with Latinx1 Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States. We take a social approach to the AJT by contextualizing code-switching (CS) within the context of reggaetón music by adding ...
Salvatore Callesano +4 more
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Similarity of wh-Phrases and Acceptability Variation in wh-Islands
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In wh-questions that form a syntactic dependency between the fronted wh-phrase and its thematic position, acceptability is severely degraded when the dependency crosses another wh-phrase.
Kyle Rawlins, Akira Omaki
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Understanding acceptability judgments: Additivity and working memory effects [PDF]
, 2010 Linguists build theories of grammar based largely on acceptability contrasts. But these contrasts can reflect grammatical constraints and/or constraints on language processing.
Hofmeister, Philip +2 more
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