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Linguistics, 2023 Linguistic judgment experiments typically elicit judgments in terms of the acceptability or surface probability of a sentence. There is evidence that the dimension of the scale on which sentences are judged influences the outcome of the experiment, but ...
Schoenmakers Gert-Jan
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Dislocation clitique de l’objet à gauche en français écrit
Discours, 2015 This paper deals with the acceptability of syntactic constructions in the light of a distinction between written and spoken French. We present this distinction as one factor within a multifactorial approach. Relevant factors include pragmatic, stylistic,
Étienne Riou, Barbara Hemforth
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The Application of Signal Detection Theory to Acceptability Judgments
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Acceptability judgments have been an important tool in language research. By asking a native speaker whether a linguistic token is acceptable, linguists and psycholinguists can collect negative evidence and directly test predictions by linguistic and psycholinguistic theories, which provide important insight into the human language capacity.
Yujing Huang, Fernanda Ferreira
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(No) competition between deverbal nouns and nominalized infinitives in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 This paper explores the distribution of deverbal nouns and nominalized infinitives that are built on transitive verbs and occur in eventive interpretations.
Barbara Schirakowski
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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 ...
Emmanuel Chemla, Jon Sprouse, Paul Marty
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Acceptability and use of the diaphragm and Replens lubricant gel for HIV prevention in Southern Africa. [PDF]
, 2009 The acceptability and use of the diaphragm and lubricant gel were assessed as part of a large randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of the methods in women's HIV acquisition.
Ramjee, Gita +23 more
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Language and CognitionThis study investigates L2 learners’ sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative constructions in English. Experiment 1 focused on measuring EFL learners’ acceptability judgment and real-time processing of sentences containing both types of ...
Hyunwoo Kim, Haerim Hwang
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Can gapping be embedded? Experimental evidence from Spanish
Glossa, 2019 This paper discusses the No Embedding Constraint, considered to be a strong syntactic constraint on gapping and a diagnostic for this ellipsis type. As shown by two acceptability judgments tasks in Spanish, the assumptions related to the No Embedding ...
Gabriela Bîlbîie, Israel de la Fuente
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An assessment of the likely acceptability of vaginal microbicides for HIV prevention among women in rural Ghana. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: The findings of the CAPRISA tenofovir studies have raised expectations that soon an approved microbicide would be available. However it is in only a limited number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa that the acceptability of microbicides has ...
Tawiah, Charlotte +20 more
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A guide to cost-effectiveness acceptability curves [PDF]
, 2005 Use of cost-effectiveness acceptability curves, as a method for summarising information on uncertainty in cost-effectiveness, has become widespread within applied studies. This includes several studies in the mental health field.
Byford, S. +3 more
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