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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
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Relevance differently affects the truth, acceptability, and probability evaluations of “and”, “but”, “therefore”, and “if–then” [PDF]
, 2017 In this study we investigate the influence of reason-relation readings of indicative conditionals and ‘and’/‘but’/‘therefore’ sentences on various cognitive assessments. According to the Frege-Grice tradition, a dissociation is expected.
Kellen, David +3 more
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Gender agreement attraction in Greek comprehension [PDF]
, 2020 This work explores gender agreement attraction in comprehension. Attraction occurs when an agreement error (such as, “the key to the cabinets are rusty”) goes unnoticed, leading to the illusion of grammaticality due to a mismatch between the value of the
Acuña-Fariña +74 more
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Language, 2016 ‘z-bad’ is the average z-score for the hypothesized ‘bad’ option. ‘z-good’ is the average z-score for the hypothesized good option. ‘Z.diff’ is the difference between z-good and z-bad and is the effect size. Beta is the estimate from the linear mixed-effects model, which has a standard error ‘SE’ and a t-value ‘t’.
Graff, Peter +3 more
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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 +4 more
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Similarity in linguistic categorization: The importance of necessary properties [PDF]
, 2012 Usage-based models of language propose that the acceptability of an element in a constructional slot is determined by its similarity to attested fillers of that slot (Bybee 2010, ch. 4).
Kalyan, Siva
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Different Ways to Test Acceptability Judgments
Studies in Generative Grammar, 2015 The testing of acceptability judgments has recently attracted some attention in the study of syntax. This is because many linguists have come to realize that the extensive measuring the correlations between native speakers’ intuitions provides a reliable way to investigate the genuine nature of human language.
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Annoyance ratings and acceptability judgments of traffic noises [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1980 In order to evaluate the adequacy of several noise descriptors purported to account for the effects of time-varying noise on people, the annoyance of 24 three-minute samples of time-varying traffic noise as heard outdoors, indoors with open windows, and indoors with closed windows were rated by 28 subjects under laboratory conditions simulating a home ...
J. W. Bauer, Wm. F. Danner, S. L. Yaniv
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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 +4 more
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Questions with long-distance dependencies: a usage-based perspective [PDF]
, 2008 Attested questions with long-distance dependencies (e.g., What do you think you’re doing?) tend to be quite stereotypical: the matrix clause usually consists of a WH word, the auxiliary do or did, the pronoun you, and the verb think or say, with no ...
Dabrowska, Ewa
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