LING 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.1: Metalinguistic Awareness, Electrophysiology
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This chapter covers what have traditionally been called grammaticality judgments in linguistics (which are more aptly referred to as acceptability judgments see below). This first section is comprised of issues that researchers should consider in deciding whether to use judgment data and how to collect them in general. The subsequent three sections look in more detail at issues of choice of task (section 2), experimental design (section 3), and data interpretation (section 4). Speakers" reactions to sentences have traditionally been referred to as grammaticality judgments, but this term is misleading. It has sometimes been suggested that claims made on the basis of acceptability judgment data do not necessarily bear on how the human language faculty is actually constructed unless their. Psychological reality has been tested via some experimental procedure using another dependent measure, such as time, error rate, electrophysiological response, and so on (edelman and christiansen 2003).
