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Quantifying sentence acceptability measures: Reliability, bias, and variability

Glossa, 2018
Understanding and measuring sentence acceptability is of fundamental importance for linguists, but although many measures for doing so have been developed, relatively little is known about some of their psychometric properties.
Amy Perfors, Andrew T. Hendrickson, Danielle J. Navarro, Lauren A. Kennedy, Steven Langsford   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Language Processing at Its Trickiest: Grammatical Illusions and Heuristics of Judgment

Languages, 2020
Humans are intuitively good at providing judgments about what forms part of their native language and what does not. Although such judgments are robust, consistent, and reliable, human cognition is demonstrably fallible to illusions of various types ...
Evelina Leivada
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Alexithymia on Judgments of Moral Acceptability [PDF]

, 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 pro-cessing, and moral judgments.
Elise M. Cardinale, Carinale, E., Stoycos, S., Catmur, C, Cook, R, Sarah Stoycos, Geoffrey Bird, Abigail A. Marsh, Brewer, Rebecca, Richard Cook, Bird, Geoffrey; id_orcid, Catmur, Caroline; id_orcid, Cook, Richard, Marsh, AA, Rebecca Brewer, Cardinale, EM, Stoycos, S, Bird, G, Catmur, Caroline, Bird, Geoffrey, Marsh, Abigail A, Catmur, C., Marsh, A., Marsh, Abigail A., Cardinale, Elise M., Stoycos, Sarah, Cardinale, Elise M, Brewer, R, Caroline Catmur   +28 more
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Constraints on multiple dependencies in the left-periphery in European Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020
This paper focuses on intervention effects obtained by embedding a topic constituent (either a displaced topic or a clitic left-dislocated topic) within the domain of wh-movement.
Cecília Castro, Emilia Athayde, Maria do Carmo Lourenço-Gomes, Maria do Pilar Pereira Barbosa, Sílvia Araújo   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Question framing and response bias in acceptability judgments

, 2019
We are examining whether the framing of judgments influences the degree of response bias in linguistic acceptability ...
Brian Dillon, Adrian Staub, Christopher Mathias Hammerly   +2 more
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Diachronic change and variation in use

Isogloss, 2023
Previous studies have demonstrated that in spontaneous speech, Rioplatense Spanish speakers—in contrast to speakers of Peninsular Spanish—sometimes produce clitic-doubled accusative nominal objects.
Esther Rinke, Sol Lago, Carolina Andrea Gattei   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acceptability Judgments

, 2017
Acceptability judgments are reports of a speaker’s or signer’s subjective sense of the well-formedness, nativeness, or naturalness of (novel) linguistic forms.
James Myers
core   +1 more source

The acquisition of Hebrew Differential Object Marking: Between production and comprehension

Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2022
This study experimentally investigates the acquisition of Differential Object Marking (DOM) among a group of 34 Hebrew-speaking children aged 3;6-7;10. Previous research on the development of DOM crosslinguistically has largely reported early emergence,
Dana Plaut, Aviya Hacohen
doaj  

Unacceptable but comprehensible: the facilitation effect of resumptive pronouns

Glossa, 2016
It is often assumed in the theoretical syntax literature that intrusive resumptive pronouns can rescue island violations. However, recent experimental investigations did not provide strong evidence for such a rescuing effect.
Andrea Beltrama, Ming Xiang
doaj   +2 more sources

Attitudes of cancer patients toward ctDNA‐based liquid biopsy for follow‐up

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This mixed‐methods study explored cancer patients' experiences, knowledge, and preferences regarding ctDNA‐based liquid biopsy for follow‐up. Awareness of ctDNA was low and recall of previous liquid biopsy was imperfect, yet acceptance was high.
Siddharth Chhajlani, Laura Mariën, Caro De Weerdt, Sanne Wouters, Laure‐Anne Teuwen, Hans Prenen, Katleen Janssens, Timon Vandamme   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source