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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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An experimental study of the adjacency constraint on the genitive subject in Japanese
Glossa, 2023 We present the results of two acceptability judgment and three self-paced reading experiments exploring the source of degradation effects on the acceptability of genitive subjects caused by having them not adjacent to the verb.
Ken Nakatani, Satoshi Nambu
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Similarity in linguistic categorization: The importance of necessary properties [PDF]
, 2012 Usage-based models of language propose that the acceptability of an element in a constructional slot is determined by its similarity to attested fillers of that slot (Bybee 2010, ch. 4).
Kalyan, Siva
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How do individual cognitive differences relate to acceptability judgments?: A reply to Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips [PDF]
, 2012 Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012) carried out two experiments in which they measured individual differences in memory to test processing accounts of island effects. They found that these individual differences failed to predict the magnitude of island
Casasanto, Laura Staum +2 more
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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 acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies [PDF]
, 2009 A number of researchers have claimed that questions and other constructions with long distance dependencies (LDDs) are acquired relatively early, by age 4 or even earlier, in spite of their complexity.
Anna Theakston +8 more
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Generating indicative-informative summaries with SumUM [PDF]
, 2002 We present and evaluate SumUM, a text summarization system that takes a raw technical text as input and produces an indicative informative summary.
Benbrahim Mohamed +8 more
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Gradient Acceptability in Mandarin Nonword Judgment
Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2020 Syllable well-formedness judgment experiments reveal that speakers exhibit gradient judgment on novel words, and the gradience has been attributed to both grammatical factors and lexical statistics (e.g., Coetzee, 2008). This study investigates gradient phonotactics stemming from the violations of four types of grammatical constraints in Mandarin ...
Shuxiao Gong, Jie Zhang
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Islands in the grammar? Standards of evidence [PDF]
, 2012 When considering how a complex system operates, the observable behavior depends upon both architectural properties of the system and the principles governing its operation.
Casasanto, Laura Staum +4 more
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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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