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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"acceptability judgments"”.
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Representation and Acquisition of Kind Reference in L2 English
… a 48-item Fill in the Gaps Task and a 64-item Acceptability Judgment Task demonstrated that L2 learners were generally more successful in their production and acceptability judgments of nominals for kind reference when the morphosyntactic manifestation of kind reference in the target language …
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Revisiting prosodic reconstruction
… of the model is tested against a set of gradient acceptability judgments.
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
… on wh-movement as reflected in their lower acceptability judgments of ungrammatical island violation sentences (e.g., *what does the worker worry if the boss leaves__?), supporting the Full Transfer/ Full Access Hypothesis. This study also investigates the source of island effects that cause …
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Some complexities in English article use and acquisition
… generic reading), and c) examines article acceptability judgments by English language learners with article-less L1s and by native speakers, both college students and adults. </p>
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Cognitive and communicative pressures in natural language
… (specifically syntactic priming) and linguistic acceptability judgments. I present data, based on large-scale surveys, showing that many of the standard syntactic and semantic judgments in a mainstream linguistic journal are flawed. Using this data, I construct a Bayesian prior over judgments and …
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Syntactic focus structure processing : behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from L1 and L2 French
… and L2 speakers of French in which subjects made acceptability judgments of sentences containing felicitous or infelicitous information structure. In Experiment 1, there was evidence of a postmaturational effect of age of arrival on judgment task scores; the geometry of this age effect did not …
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Reasuntivos y doblado del clitico: En torno a la caracterizacion del termino "Casi-Nativo"
… off-line and two on-line experimental tasks (Acceptability Judgments, Magnitude Estimation and Sentence Matching) intended to evaluate the grammatical and processing abilities of the three groups of speakers, who represented two varieties of Spanish: the Peninsular variety and the Rioplatense …
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Processing of non-canonical word orders in an L2
… reading task, this time combined with an acceptability rating task. In the acceptability rating L1 and L2 speakers show the same preference for the verb-adjacent placement of the particle over the non-adjacent placement after the direct object. However, this preference for adjacency is …