In Search of the Factors Behind Naive Sentence Judgments: A State Trace Analysis of Grammaticality and Acceptability Ratings

Frontiers in Psychology

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Steven Langsford¹  Rachel G. Stephens²  John C. Dunn³  Richard L. Lewis¹ 

[1] Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, United States;Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide;Psychological Science, University of Western Australia

关键词: acceptability;    grammaticality;    state trace analysis;    rating task;    language modeling;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02886

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

We present a state-trace analysis of sentence ratings elicited by asking participants to evaluate the overall acceptability of a sentence and those elicited by asking participants to focus on structural well-formedness only. Appealing to literature on “grammatical illusion” sentences, we anticipated that a simple instruction manipulation might prompt people to apply qualitatively different kinds of judgment in the two conditions. Although differences consistent with the subjective experience of grammatical illusion dissociations were observed, the state trace analysis of the rating data indicates that responses were still consistent with both judgment types accessing a single underlying factor. These results add to the existing comparisons between analytic and probabilistic modeling approaches to predicting rating judgments.

【 授权许可】

CC BY