SCALING OF GRAMMATICALNESS OF SELF-EMBEDDED ENGLISH SENTENCES

被引:27
作者
MARKS, LE
机构
[1] Yale University, New Haven
来源
JOURNAL OF VERBAL LEARNING AND VERBAL BEHAVIOR | 1968年 / 7卷 / 05期
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10.1016/S0022-5371(68)80106-9
中图分类号
G44 [教育心理学];
学科分类号
0402 ; 040202 ;
摘要
Native speakers of English estimated the relative grammaticalness of simple declarative sentences, self-embedded sentences, right-branching sentences, and anagram strings. Simple declarative and right-branching sentences were, for the most part, judged to be completely grammatical; anagram strings were judged to be most ungrammatical. The estimated ungrammaticalness" of self-embedded sentences seems to grow as a power function of the number of embeddings above a "threshold" of 1.5 embeddings. The exponent of the power function appears to lie between 0.25 and 0.30. © 1968 Academic Press Inc."
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