grammaticality judgments

[Sarita Eisenberg]

There's a chapter by McDaniel & Cairns on eliciting grammaticality
judgments in McDaniel, McKee, & Cairns (eds) Methods for Assessing
Children's Syntax published by MIT Press (1996).
You can also check
McDaniel & Cairns (1990). The child as informant: Eliciting intuitions
from young children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 19, 331-344.

Sarita Eisenberg


Alison Crutchley wrote:

>Dear James
>
>You could look at the following to start with:
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>Crain, S., & R. Thornton. (1998). Investigations in Universal Grammar: a
>guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics.
>Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
>Hiromatsu, K., & D. Lillo-Martin. (1998). Children who judge
>ungrammatical what they produce. Proceedings of the Annual Boston
>University Conference on Language Development, 22(1), 337-347.
>Rice, M.T., K. Wexler, & S.M. Redmond. (1999). Grammaticality judgements
>of an extended optional infinitive grammar: evidence from
>English-speaking children with specific language impairment. Journal of
>Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 42, 943-961.
>
>No doubt there are more up-to-date references too - it's a while since I
>thought about this!
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>Best wishes, Alison Crutchley
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Russell [mailto:jr111 at hermes.cam.ac.uk]
>Sent: 16 December 2004 14:35
>To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
>Subject: grammaticality judgments
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>
>Hello,
>
>By this question I'm sure to betray much ignorance. . . but can
>anybody offer advice on trying to evoke grammatically judgements from
>pre-school children. For example, a puppet 'speaks' a sentence (e.g.,
>'The apple in on the table' or *The apple on is the table') and the
>child must judge if what the puppet  said was "silly" or "OK".  I do
>recall the silly/OK procedure being used by somebody. . .
>I know of Stephen Crain's use of a truth-value judgment procedure in
>a similar way; but I (quixotically?) want to evoke judgments of
>well-formedness.
>
>James Russell
>Experimental Psychology
>Cambridge, UK
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