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Processing effects in linguistic judgment data: (super-)additivity and reading span scores [PDF]
Linguistic acceptability judgments are widely agreed to reflect constraints on real-time language processing. Nonetheless, very little is known about how processing costs affect acceptability judgments.
CASASANTO, LAURA STAUM +2 more
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Gradient Acceptability in Mandarin Nonword Judgment
Syllable well-formedness judgment experiments reveal that speakers exhibit gradient judgment on novel words, and the gradience has been attributed to both grammatical factors and lexical statistics (e.g., Coetzee, 2008). This study investigates gradient phonotactics stemming from the violations of four types of grammatical constraints in Mandarin ...
Shuxiao Gong, Jie Zhang
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How do individual cognitive differences relate to acceptability judgments?: A reply to Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips [PDF]
Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012) carried out two experiments in which they measured individual differences in memory to test processing accounts of island effects. They found that these individual differences failed to predict the magnitude of island
Casasanto, Laura Staum +2 more
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Social Context Modulates Tolerance For Pragmatic Violations In Binary But Not Graded Judgments [PDF]
A common method for investigating pragmatic processing and its development in children is to have participants make binary judgments of underinformative (UI) statements such as Some elephants are mammals.
Grodner, Daniel J., Kim, M., Sikos, L.
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Islands in the grammar? Standards of evidence [PDF]
When considering how a complex system operates, the observable behavior depends upon both architectural properties of the system and the principles governing its operation.
Casasanto, Laura Staum +4 more
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Paths to Forgiveness: Acceptability and Effects of an Intervention [PDF]
This study assessed the short-term effects and acceptability of an intervention aimed at promoting forgiveness. Delivered to ten participants, the intervention consisted of seven weekly sessions, each lasting two hours.
José Marcelo Oliveira da Luz +2 more
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Modeling Human Morphological Competence
One of the central debates in the cognitive science of language has revolved around the nature of human linguistic competence. Whether syntactic competence should be characterized by abstract hierarchical structures or reduced to surface linear strings ...
Yohei Oseki +4 more
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This vignette-based study examines how generalized trust and the need for cognitive closure relate to the perceived acceptability of contemporary business methods of personal data collection.
David Chavanne
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The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies [PDF]
A number of researchers have claimed that questions and other constructions with long distance dependencies (LDDs) are acquired relatively early, by age 4 or even earlier, in spite of their complexity.
Anna Theakston +8 more
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GRADE equity guidelines 4: guidance on how to assess and address health equity within the evidence to decision process [PDF]
Objective: The aim of this paper is to provide detailed guidance on how to incorporate health equity within the GRADE (Grading Recommendations Assessment and Development Evidence) evidence to decision process.
Akl, Elie A +19 more
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