Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The development of the causal connectives and of causality: some previous studies
- 3 Elicited production studies
- 4 The empirical mode
- 5 The intentional mode
- 6 The deductive mode
- 7 General discussion
- Appendices
- 1 Details of procedures for elicited production experiments
- 2 Sequences and items for Experiment 4
- 3 Stories and items used in Experiment 5
- 4 Materials used in Experiment 6 (Deductive/Empirical)
- 5 Acceptability judgement questionnaire based on Experiment 6
- 6 Materials used in Experiment 7 (Deductive Marking)
- Notes
- References
- Index
5 - Acceptability judgement questionnaire based on Experiment 6
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The development of the causal connectives and of causality: some previous studies
- 3 Elicited production studies
- 4 The empirical mode
- 5 The intentional mode
- 6 The deductive mode
- 7 General discussion
- Appendices
- 1 Details of procedures for elicited production experiments
- 2 Sequences and items for Experiment 4
- 3 Stories and items used in Experiment 5
- 4 Materials used in Experiment 6 (Deductive/Empirical)
- 5 Acceptability judgement questionnaire based on Experiment 6
- 6 Materials used in Experiment 7 (Deductive Marking)
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
This questionnaire is designed to obtain adults' judgements about the acceptability of certain sentences. These judgements will help me to analyse the results of my research on children's language.
The items are based on a task in which the child is shown two pictures and these pictures are described to him. Then, he is asked to complete a sentence based on the pictures. For each item, please begin by reading the descriptions of the pictures (see page 10). Then, read the corresponding set of sentences below. Your task is to rank the sentences for acceptability by placing a ‘1’ beside the sentence which ‘sounds best’; a ‘2’ beside the sentence which ‘sounds the next best’; and so on. If you think that two or more sentences are equally acceptable, then give them equal ranks by using an ‘=’ sign (e.g. ‘2 =’). Please rank all the sentences in the set. If you think that any sentence is totally unacceptable, then place an asterisk beside it (as well as giving it a rank). Try not to spend too long thinking about any item. Please finish ranking each set of sentences before proceeding to the next set.
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- Children's ExplanationsA Psycholinguistic Study, pp. 172 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986