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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"grammaticality"”.
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Evaluating Natural Language Generation Tasks for Grammaticality, Faithfulness and Diversity
… evaluation framework for assessing the grammaticality, faithfulness, and diversity (GFD) of generated text in NLG tasks. These three metrics are considered as essential linguistic qualities, which need to be present in the outputs of NLG models. Grammaticality is examined by analysing …
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An investigation of the reliability of L2 learners' grammaticality judgments
… administration, using a computer administrated grammaticality judgment task and a written sentence combining task. Three proficiency groups, low, intermediate and high, took part in the experiment and were compared with a control group. Significant correlations were found across proficiency …
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L1 English L2 German learners' grammaticality judgments and knowledge of demonstrative pronouns
… in advanced German classes were tested via a grammaticality judgment test to see whether they were able to successfully identify demonstrative pronouns in German as grammatical or if they interpreted the demonstrative to be an error. Additionally, participants were asked to discuss their …
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Native and nonnative speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs assessed in grammaticality judgments and multiple choice tests
… learners of English as a second language made grammaticality judgments about dative sentences in English. This part of the thesis reexamined the roles of markedness and language transfer in the context of Korean as the first language of English learners. Unlike findings in previous studies on …
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A sensitive period for second language acquismon: A reaction-time study of grammaticality juooments of English by Korean-English bilinguals
… were tested for their ability to judge the grammaticality of 96 English sentences in 12 grammatical categories, employing a reaction-time procedure. These subjects first began learning English at ages varying from 0 to 29 years and each had spent a minimum of five years in the United States. …
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School-Age Children's Ability to Produce and Judge Syntactic Forms (Metalinguistic Skill)
… children's ability to produce and judge grammaticality of three verb forms. Grade 1, 2, and 3 children produced the perfect (have taken), perfect progressive (have been taking), and past progressive (was taking) in a story retelling task. They judged grammatical form of these three verb …
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An Investigation of English Structure Rules in Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… and Diffley (1976) of learners' judgements of grammaticality, adult students of English as a Second Language were asked to correctly judge the grammaticality of English sentences containing eight selected preposition structure errors. The errors were selected from compositions written by …
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Detecting grammatical errors with treebank-induced, probabilistic parsers
… We present three new methods for judging the grammaticality of a sentence with probabilistic, treebank-induced grammars, demonstrating that such grammars can be successfully applied to automatically judge the grammaticality of an input string. Our best-performing method exploits the …
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Structural competition in grammar
… (1) Competition exists in natural language: the grammaticality (and meaning) of using a linguistic object 0 can be affected by the grammaticality (and meaning) of a different linguistic object [phi]' (2) Structure plays a role in competition: [phi]' can only affect the grammaticality (and …
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The Use of the Present Perfect and Simple Past in New Zealand English
… The study presents both paired and graded grammaticality judgements, and the effect on perceived grammaticality of contracting the auxiliary has/have. The results for each sample sentence are discussed, and an analysis of variation by demographic factors is also performed. The simple past …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… tasks administered through a forced-choice grammaticality judgment experiment using real noun phrases and non-word phrases. Dependent measures were (i) accuracy, and (ii) morphophonological patterns of reanalysis.<br /><br />At the production level, the results of this investigation …
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Verb Agreement in Kannada: A Constraint Based Account
The grammaticality of both regular finite verbs and defective verbs in Kannada find a natural explanation in the HPSG framework: A finite verb takes only that nominative noun phrase as its complement which bears information compatible to the index specified. Defective verbs are argued to be …
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A tree-to-tree model for statistical machine translation
… a target-language tree helps to ensure the grammaticality of the output. A main focus of this thesis is to develop a statistical tree-to-tree mapping algorithm. Our solution involves a novel representation called an aligned extended projection, or AEP. The AEP, inspired by ideas in …
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Processing of code-mixed sentences by two types of bilinguals: A comparison of code-mixers and non-code-mixers
… sentences. Task 2 was a non-timed metalinguistic grammaticality judgment task in which the same subjects were asked to indicate if the code-mixed sentences presented in the timed task were acceptable or unacceptable code-mixed sentences.
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The sensitive period for second language acquisition: An experimental study of age effects on universal grammar and language transfer
… time) of responses was measured in addition to grammaticality judgment so that the subjects' conscious monitoring of linguistic processes could be kept at a minimum. The reaction time measurement also provided information on the subjects' fluency of processing. Materials were developed within …
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The representation of clitics in the lexicons of English-speaking learners of French
… was to find out if patterns of errors in grammaticality judgments can be explained by (i) a single variable like ""general language proficiency,"" or (ii) some number of group factors corresponding to ""first language dependent"" or ""first language independent"" principles, or even if …
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Study of an older child's first language learned as the minority language in a bilingual setting
… over a five month period) and a ""judgment of grammaticality"" test to assess receptive knowledge."
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Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
… inherent property of a noun. Second, an online grammaticality judgment task addressed L2 learners' gender agreement ability during processing, while taking into account (a) the role of gender cues available to the participant, and (b) non-linguistic processing constraints such as working memory …
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"Grammaticalite De L'accord Du Participe Passe Conjugue Avec Avoir Dans Le ""Journal De La Langue Francaise"" d'Urbain Domergue"
… new ones. In addition to investigating the grammaticality of this agreement rule in this periodical, my goal is to situate the rule in the broader context of French intellectual history. The study demonstrates that the rule, originally motivated by Latin grammar, is finally supported as a …
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Creating an SLI performance profile with load
… of SLI in typically developing children within a grammaticality judgment task, featuring structures historically difficult (third person singular –S and auxiliary BE) and easy (plural –S and progressive –ING) for individuals with SLI. Cognitive load was manipulated through the length of the …
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