Defining the knowledge units of a synthetic language: comment on Vokey and Brooks (1992)
Vokey and Brooks (1992) reported a set of experiments intended to demonstrate that judgments of grammaticality are determined by two characteristics of the test items: their similarity with a specific study item and their conformity with an abstract representation of the generative grammar. I argu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition Vol. 20; pp. 223 - 229 |
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American Psychological Association
January 1994
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