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The effect of three basic task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment tasks
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03101517 ; Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021), Ubiquity Press, 2020, 5 (1), pp.72. ⟨10.5334/gjgl.980⟩ (2020)
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International audience ; Sprouse and Almeida (2017) provide a first systematic investigation of the sensitivity of four acceptability judgment tasks. In this project, we build on these results by decomposing those tasks into three constituent task features (single versus joint presentation, number of response options, and use of response labels), and explore the consequences of those task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment experiments. We present 6 additional experiments (for a total of 10) designed to probe the effect of those task features on sensitivity, both independently and in combination. Our results suggest three notable conclusions: (i) there is a clear advantage to joint presentation of theoretically-related sentence types, regardless of the type of response scale used in the experiment; (ii) tasks involving a continuous slider (which have an infinite number of response options, and few labels) offer good sensitivity, while relying solely on spatial reasoning rather than numeric reasoning; and (iii) there are a number of subtle interactions among the three task features that may warrant further investigation. We discuss the potential benefits and concerns of each of these features in detail, along with the relevance of these findings for deciding how to investigate both simple and higher-order acceptability contrasts.
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[SCCO]Cognitive science; acceptability judgments; design analysis; experimental sensitivity; experimental syntax; linguistic methodology; quantitative methods
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URL: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.980 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03101517/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03101517/file/980-19938-1-PB.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03101517
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COMPARING SOLUTIONS TO THE LINKING PROBLEM USING AN INTEGRATED QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORK OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
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In: LANGUAGE, vol 95, iss 4 (2019)
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Colorless green ideas do sleep furiously: gradient acceptability and the nature of the grammar
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In: De Gruyter (2019)
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Rhetorical questions as questions
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11; 121-133 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11; 121-133 ; 2629-6055 (2019)
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Grammar and the use of data
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In: Sprouse, Jon; & Schütze, Carson T. (2017). Grammar and the use of data. In The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar Location: Oxford University Press. UCLA: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0n100842 (2017)
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Design sensitivity and statistical power in acceptability judgment experiments
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 2, No 1 (2017); 14 ; 2397-1835 (2017)
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Investigating Variation in Island Effects: A Case Study of Norwegian Wh-Extraction
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Experimental syntax and island effects
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Sprouse, Jon. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2013
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A comparison of informal and formal acceptability judgments using a random sample from Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010
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In: LINGUA, vol 134 (2013)
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Syntactic Islands and Learning Biases: Combining Experimental Syntax and Computational Modeling to Investigate the Language Acquisition Problem
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In: Pearl, Lisa; & Sprouse, Jon. (2013). Syntactic Islands and Learning Biases: Combining Experimental Syntax and Computational Modeling to Investigate the Language Acquisition Problem. Language Acquisition, 20(1), 23 - 68. doi:10.1080/10489223.2012.738742. UC Irvine: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1tf6r4cf (2013)
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