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Follow the eyes: gaze and grammaticality [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
This paper studies the role of eye tracking in detecting grammatical violation in reading tasks. It tests the assumption that encountering syntactic violation has its correspondence in the behavioral patterns associated with gazing.
Laszlo Hunyadi
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On the rapid use of verb-control information in sentence processing [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
A central topic in psycholinguistics is the study of how and when the parser assigns an antecedent to referentially-dependent elements. One such referentially-dependent element is the null subject of non-finite clauses.
Josep Demestre
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Characterizing the ‘Focus-on-form’ as the SLA Classroom Mediation Strategy: Should This Be ‘Grammaticality’- or ‘Textuality’-oriented? [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2021
Grammar has always been considered by language learners as well as by those engaged in language education as an essential component of language, and their expectations from and planning for any language education programs have been conditioned ...
Kazem Lotfipoursaedi
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Rhythmic motor behavior explains individual differences in grammar skills in adults [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
A growing body of literature has reported the relationship between music and language, particularly between individual differences in perceptual rhythm skill and grammar competency in children.
Hyun-Woong Kim   +7 more
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Child Relativized Minimality and Grammaticality Judgement

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Grammaticality judgements are the fundamental experimental source of generative linguistic theory. They may be difficult to elicit, especially in some populations, but generally they inform us neatly about what the grammar licenses or, on the contrary ...
Anna Gavarró
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Fuzzy Property Grammars for Gradience in Natural Language

open access: yesMathematics, 2023
This paper introduces a new grammatical framework, Fuzzy Property Grammars (FPGr). This is a model based on Property Grammars and Fuzzy Natural Logic.
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia   +2 more
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Exceptionality in Spanish Onset Clusters

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020
Spanish complex onsets have been traditionally described as consisting of a stop (/p, t, k, b, d, g/) or the fricative /f/ plus a liquid. Given that all Spanish varieties have other fricatives (/x, s/), the obstruents that can form part of an onset ...
Katerina A. Tetzloff
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Asymmetries in the Acceptability and Felicity of English Negative Dependencies: Where Negative Concord and Negative Polarity (Do Not) Overlap

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Negative Concord (NC) constructions such as the news anchor didn’t warn nobody about the floods (meaning “the news anchor warned nobody”), in which two syntactic negations contribute a single semantic one, are stigmatized in English, while their Negative
Frances Blanchette, Cynthia Lukyanenko
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In Search of the Factors Behind Naive Sentence Judgments: A State Trace Analysis of Grammaticality and Acceptability Ratings

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
We present a state-trace analysis of sentence ratings elicited by asking participants to evaluate the overall acceptability of a sentence and those elicited by asking participants to focus on structural well-formedness only.
Steven Langsford   +3 more
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Errors and Learning/Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language: an Exercise in Grammaticology

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2017
Despite ‘pendulum swings’ and ‘revolutions’ throughout the history of language teaching, the association of errors and grammar (of one’s native language or of a second/foreign language) has been a constant concern of language professionals as well as the
Andrea Nava
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