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The impact of autism spectrum disorder and alexithymia on judgments of moral acceptability.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2015 One's own emotional response toward a hypothetical action can influence judgments of its moral acceptability. Some individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit atypical emotional processing, and moral judgments. Research suggests, however, that emotional deficits in ASD are due to co-occurring alexithymia, meaning atypical moral judgments in
Rebecca Brewer +6 more
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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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Psicológica, 2010 Using Functional Measurement (Anderson, 2008), Frileux, Lelièvre, Muñoz Sastre, Mullet, and Sorum (2003) examined the joint impact of several key factors on lay people's judgments of the acceptability of physicians' interventions to end patients' lives ...
Etienne Mullet +4 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. However, this assumption has always been challenged by studies showing the influence of extralinguistic factors on the judgment process, leading to recent linguistic research employing better ...
Kumiko Murasugi, Murasugi, Kumiko
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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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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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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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