21.818, Qs: Grammaticality Judgment Task Instructions

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Subject: 21.818, Qs: Grammaticality Judgment Task Instructions

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Date: 16-Feb-2010
From: Jennifer Culbertson < culbertson at cogsci.jhu.edu >
Subject: Grammaticality Judgment Task Instructions
 

	
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:56:30
From: Jennifer Culbertson [culbertson at cogsci.jhu.edu]
Subject: Grammaticality Judgment Task Instructions

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Dear Linguist List Readers,

I am working on a project investigating the connection between 
acceptability/grammaticality judgments and speaker's underlying 
linguistic competence. This project in part involves looking at the 
reliability and consistency of such judgments across groups of 
speakers. 

One issue that I am grappling with is the lack of a standard set of 
instructions used for such tasks, and I am hoping that those of you who 
have experience conducting such tasks could provide me with the 
instructions that you used. This will allow me to get a better idea of 
what is typical in the field. 

If you have conducted a judgment task (in any language) and would be 
willing to send me the set of instructions you provided to your subjects 
as well as very brief line about what you were investigating (or a 
reference for any relevant publications), I would very much appreciate 
it. 

I also welcome any references to work that you are aware of that uses 
acceptability/grammaticality judgments and contains explicit 
instructions.

I have already consulted Schutze (1996) and Sprouse (2007) and the 
references therein.

I will post a summary of responses.

Thanks very much in advance,
-Jenny Culbertson 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics




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