Currently, there is little agreement as to how Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems
should be evaluated, with a particularly high degree of variation in the way that human …

Humans are universally good in providing stable and accurate judgments about what forms
part of their language and what not. Large Language Models (LMs) are claimed to possess …

This thesis addresses the lexical and psycholinguistic properties of copredication. In
particular, it explores its acceptability, frequency, crosslinguistic and electrophysiological …

Sprouse and Almeida (2017) provide a first systematic investigation of the sensitivity of four
acceptability judgment tasks. In this project, we build on these results by decomposing those …

Acceptability judgments have been an important tool in language research. By asking a
native speaker whether a linguistic token is acceptable, linguists and psycholinguists can …

Sentence acceptability experiments have become increasingly common since Cowart
(1997) first presented a detailed method for carrying them out, but there is still relatively little …

Languages typically provide more than one grammatical construction to express certain
types of messages. A speaker's choice of construction is known to depend on multiple …

This chapter outlines a framework for using signal detection theory (SDT) to guide the
design and analysis of acceptability judgment studies in experimental linguistics. It presents …

In the last decade, the demand for readily accessible corpora has touched all areas of
natural language processing, including coreference resolution. However, it is one of the …

The informal judgments of the well-formedness of phrases and sentences have long been
used as the primary data source for syntacticians. In recent years, the reliability of data …