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Questions with long-distance dependencies: a usage-based perspective [PDF]
, 2008 Attested questions with long-distance dependencies (e.g., What do you think you’re doing?) tend to be quite stereotypical: the matrix clause usually consists of a WH word, the auxiliary do or did, the pronoun you, and the verb think or say, with no ...
Dabrowska, Ewa
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The perfective past tense in Greek child language [PDF]
, 2009 This study examines the perfective past tense of Greek in an elicited production and an acceptability judgment task testing 35 adult native speakers and 154 children in six age groups (age range: 3 ; 5 to 8 ; 5) on both existing and novel verb stimuli ...
Clahsen +17 more
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Can policy making be evidence-based? [PDF]
, 2002 Ministers are always calling for more evidence-based interventions. Do they apply the same criterion to their own work of making policy? Perhaps surprisingly, policy making is not an evidence-free zone.
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Language, 2016 ‘z-bad’ is the average z-score for the hypothesized ‘bad’ option. ‘z-good’ is the average z-score for the hypothesized good option. ‘Z.diff’ is the difference between z-good and z-bad and is the effect size. Beta is the estimate from the linear mixed-effects model, which has a standard error ‘SE’ and a t-value ‘t’.
Graff, Peter +3 more
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The acceptability of the pre-verbal bare singular in Brazilian Portuguese
Revista Linguística, 2018 Our research investigates the judgements of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) native speakers with respect to preverbal bare singulars, considering the proposal that pragmatic factors such as contrastive focus might improve the acceptability of the constructions
Raíssa Silva Santana, Elaine Grolla
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Mixed Compounds: Where Morphology Interfaces with Syntax
Languages, 2022 In this work, we investigate a special type of CS below word level, which is observed in mixed compound words. In particular, we discuss mixed Italian–German compounds; this combination is particularly interesting since, in the two languages, the process
Gloria Cocchi, Cristina Pierantozzi
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Relevance differently affects the truth, acceptability, and probability evaluations of “and”, “but”, “therefore”, and “if–then” [PDF]
, 2017 In this study we investigate the influence of reason-relation readings of indicative conditionals and ‘and’/‘but’/‘therefore’ sentences on various cognitive assessments. According to the Frege-Grice tradition, a dissociation is expected.
Kellen, David +3 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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Different Ways to Test Acceptability Judgments
Studies in Generative Grammar, 2015 The testing of acceptability judgments has recently attracted some attention in the study of syntax. This is because many linguists have come to realize that the extensive measuring the correlations between native speakers’ intuitions provides a reliable way to investigate the genuine nature of human language.
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