TY - JOUR
T1 - Setting the empirical record straight
T2 - Acceptability judgments appear to be reliable, robust, and replicable
AU - Sprouse, Jon
AU - Almeida, Diogo
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability judgments. While we recognize the merit of drawing attention to a potentially underexplored experimental methodology in language science, we do not believe that the empirical evidence supports B&P's claims about acceptability judgments. We present the relevant evidence.
AB - Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability judgments. While we recognize the merit of drawing attention to a potentially underexplored experimental methodology in language science, we do not believe that the empirical evidence supports B&P's claims about acceptability judgments. We present the relevant evidence.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X17000590
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X17000590
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 29342740
AN - SCOPUS:85062993500
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 40
SP - e311
JO - The Behavioral and brain sciences
JF - The Behavioral and brain sciences
ER -