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Number-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese as a case of semantic incorporation
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 This paper provides empirical evidence for a verb-noun construction in Brazilian Portuguese, which has not yet been analyzed in the linguistic literature.
Albert Wall
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Languages, 2021 This study set out to investigate whether US Heritage Spanish features a more streamlined verbal paradigm in psych verb constructions compared to standard varieties of Spanish, where HS speakers find an invariable third-person singular form acceptable ...
Viola G. Miglio, Stefan Th. Gries
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Neural Network Acceptability Judgments [PDF]
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019 This paper investigates the ability of artificial neural networks to judge the grammatical acceptability of a sentence, with the goal of testing their linguistic competence. We introduce the Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (CoLA), a set of 10,657 English sentences labeled as grammatical or ungrammatical from published linguistics literature.
Warstadt, Alex +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Unlike adjunct wh’s-in-situ, argument wh’s-in-situ do not seem to be subject to island constraints in Chinese and other East Asian languages. This difference in island sensitivity between argument and adjunct wh’s-in-situ is known as argument–adjunct ...
Qilin Tian +2 more
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SNAP judgments: A small N acceptability paradigm (SNAP) for linguistic acceptability judgments [PDF]
Language, 2016 While published linguistic judgments sometimes differ from the judgments found in large-scale formal experiments with naive participants, there is not a consensus as to how often these errors occur nor as to how often formal experiments should be used in syntax and semantics research.
Graff, Peter +3 more
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Children's judgments on the acceptability of prejudice
Child Development, 2023 Abstract By middle childhood, children become aware that discriminatory behavior is unacceptable; however, the development of their anti‐prejudice sentiments is largely unknown. Across two studies, 333 Australian 5‐ to 10‐year‐olds (51% female, majority White) were asked how acceptable they thought it was to have prejudicial ...
Jessica L. Spence +3 more
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Neutrality and relative acceptability in judgment aggregation [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2019 AbstractOne of the fundamental normative principles in social choice theory is that of neutrality. In the context of judgment aggregation, neutrality is encoded in the form of an axiom expressing that, when two possible judgments enjoy the same support amongst the individuals, then either both or neither of them should be accepted. This is a reasonable
Terzopoulou, Zoi, Endriss, Ulle
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Viewing dialect change through acceptability judgments: A case study in Shetland dialect
Glossa, 2020 Acceptability judgments are the standard methodology for investigating syntactic variation. While acceptability judgments have been shown to be reliable in cases of assumed stable variation, there has been little discussion of how syntactic change plays ...
E Jamieson
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 A search for the terms “acceptability judgment tasks” and “language” and “grammaticality judgment tasks” and “language” produces results which report findings that are based on the exact same elicitation technique.
Evelina Leivada +2 more
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Social Context Modulates Tolerance For Pragmatic Violations In Binary But Not Graded Judgments [PDF]
, 2019 A common method for investigating pragmatic processing and its development in children is to have participants make binary judgments of underinformative (UI) statements such as Some elephants are mammals.
Grodner, Daniel J., Kim, M., Sikos, L.
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