Grammaticality, Acceptability, and Probability: A Probabilistic View of Linguistic Knowledge

• Published in: Cognitive science Vol. 41; no. 5; pp. 1202 - 1241
• Main Authors: Lau, Jey Han, Clark, Alexander, Lappin, Shalom
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley-Blackwell 01.07.2017; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Cognitive ability; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Computer and Information Sciences; Correlation; Data- och informationsvetenskap (Datateknik); Grammar; Grammaticality; Humans; Judgment; Knowledge; Language; Language Processing; Language Research; Learning algorithms; Linguistic Theory; Linguistics; Models, Theoretical; Natural Language Processing; Prediction; Probabilistic modeling; Probability; Psychology; Psykologi; Scores; Sentences; Syntactic knowledge; Task Analysis; Probabilistic modeling; Syntactic knowledge; Grammaticality

The question of whether humans represent grammatical knowledge as a binary condition on membership in a set of well‐formed sentences, or as a probabilistic property has been the subject of debate among linguists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists for many decades. Acceptability judgments prese...