This study aimed to investigate how Iranian EFL learners performed in producing sentences containing idioms and whether they had any problems in producing such sentences. This query, subsequently, raised the question of whether idioms influenced the participants’ grammaticality judgment on idiom-containing sentences. For this purpose, firstly, the writings of 24 learners were investigated for a...

this study aimed to investigate how iranian efl learners performed in producing sentences containing idioms and whether they had any problems in producing such sentences. this query, subsequently, raised the question of whether idioms influenced the participants’ grammaticality judgment on idiom-containing sentences. for this purpose, firstly, the writings of 24 learners were investigated for a...

The robustness of probabilistic parsing generally comes at the expense of grammaticality judgment – the grammaticality of the most probable output parse remaining unknown. Parsers, such as the Stanford or the Reranking ones, can not discriminate between grammatical and ungrammatical probable parses, whether their surface realisations are themselves grammatical or not. In this paper we show that...

This papers deals with grammaticality judgments and their use as evidence in linguistic theory. Based on a review of the recent literature on linguistic judgments and their elicitation, the theoretical significance of judgment data is discussed, and an overview of the relevant experimental findings is provided. A number of linguistic and non-linguistics factors that bias grammaticality judgment...

-1INTRODUCTION Halfway through the twentieth century, linguistics underwent a major methodological shift, from distributional analysis of native-speaker speech (BloomÞeld, 1961), to the analysis of native-speaker intuitions about legal sentence types (Chomsky, 1957; for reviews, see Newmeyer, 1980; Sells, Shieber & Wasow, 1991). In most cases, the native speakers who furnish these intuitions ha...

Amid the proliferation of online news portals, there is a felt need for reinvestigation millennial students’ metalinguistic knowledge (MK) on technicality headlines. Couched within Relevance Theory, including interlarding theories Communicative Competence and Monitor Hypothesis, this study investigated 80 technical selected 35 headlines vis-à-vis academic disciplines exposure to headlines/news ...

This study evaluated the critical period hypothesis for second language (L2) acquisition. The participants were 240 native speakers of Korean who differed according to age of arrival (AOA) in the United States (1 to 23 years), but were all experienced in English (mean length of residence 5 15 years). The native Korean participants’ pronunciation of English was evaluated by having listeners rate...

We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate the contributions of explicit and implicit processes during second language (L2) sentence comprehension. We used a L2 grammaticality judgment task (GJT) to test 20 native English speakers enrolled in the first four semesters of Spanish while recording both accuracy and ERP data. Because end-of-sentence grammaticality judgments are ope...