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Using Mechanical Turk to Obtain and Analyze English Acceptability Judgments [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2011 Abstract The prevalent method in theoretical syntax and semantics research involves obtaining a judgment of the acceptability of a sentence/meaning pair, typically by just the author of the paper, sometimes with feedback from colleagues.
Gibson, Edward A. +2 more
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Neural evidence suggests phonological acceptability judgments reflect similarity, not constraint evaluation. [PDF]
Cognition, 2023 Avcu E, Newman O, Ahlfors SP, Gow DW.
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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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Using audio stimuli in acceptability judgment experiments [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2020 Abstract In this paper, we argue that moving away from written stimuli in acceptability judgment experiments is necessary to address the systematic exclusion of particular empirical phenomena, languages/varieties, and speakers in psycholinguistics.
Yourdanis Sedarous +1 more
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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Empirical investigation into the emotional and physiological processes that shape moral decision-making is vast and growing. Yet, relatively less attention has been paid to measures of interoception in morality research despite its centrality in both ...
Helen Brown +3 more
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Cognitive constraints and island effects [PDF]
, 2010 Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for.
Ivan A. Sag,, Philip Hofmeister,
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An experimental approach to case marking in Romanian elliptical comparatives [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 The main goal of this paper is to experimentally assess the case marking alternation on the subject remnant in Romanian gapped comparatives, in order to illustrate the limits of introspective informal judgments as the sole source of data and to show ...
Gabriela Bîlbîie
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Data convergence in syntactic theory and the role of sentence pairs
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2020 Most acceptability judgments reported in the syntactic literature are obtained by linguists being their own informants. For well-represented languages like English, this method of data collection is best described as a process of community agreement ...
Juzek Tom S., Häussler Jana
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Magnitude Estimation: can it do something for your pragmatics?
Corela, 2014 We report the results of a pilot study investigating whether the technique of Magnitude Estimation, widely used in psychophysics but also in syntax and phonology, can be exploited in discourse pragmatics. In this domain, unacceptable data (i.e.
Rudy Loock, Cyril Auran
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