Intralingual Variation in Acceptability Judgments and Production: Three Case Studies in Russian Grammar [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production and rating experiments in the context of language variation.
Anastasia Gerasimova +3 more
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The Application of Signal Detection Theory to Acceptability Judgments [PDF]
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 ...
Yujing Huang, Fernanda Ferreira
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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.
Warstadt, Alex +2 more
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The source ambiguity problem: Distinguishing the effects of grammar and processing on acceptability judgments. [PDF]
Lang Cogn Process, 2013 Judgments of linguistic unacceptability may theoretically arise from either grammatical deviance or significant processing difficulty. Acceptability data are thus naturally ambiguous in theories that explicitly distinguish formal and functional ...
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The reliability of acceptability judgments across languages
Glossa, 2018 The reliability of acceptability judgments made by individual linguists has often been called into question. Recent large-scale replication studies conducted in response to this criticism have shown that the majority of published English acceptability ...
Tal Linzen, Yohei Oseki
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SNAP judgments: A small N acceptability paradigm (SNAP) for linguistic acceptability judgments [PDF]
Language, 2015 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
Gibson, Edward +3 more
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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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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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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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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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