Beyond accuracy: Heritage speakers’ performance on two kinds of acceptability judgment tasks
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716418000760
Abstract: Abstract This article examines the performance of heritage speakers (HSs) on two types of acceptability judgment tasks (AJTs) as well as their corresponding confidence ratings. Data were collected from 75 native speakers of Spanish who… read more here.
Keywords: performance; judgment tasks; acceptability judgment; heritage speakers ... See more keywords
The acceptability judgment of Chinese pseudo-modifiers with and without a sentential context
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219896
Abstract: This paper investigates a particular type of non-canonical construction in Mandarin Chinese displaying an apparent semantics-syntax mismatch. We conducted an acceptability judgment experiment on native Mandarin speakers to evaluate whether such sequences could stand out… read more here.
Keywords: judgment chinese; acceptability; acceptability judgment; sentential context ... See more keywords