Otherwise, one would be able to specify a reference time for the (potential) leaving event and have an acceptable sentence 23 (cf., 19).
In Task 1, participants had to judge each sentence for correctness, i.e., whether it is an acceptable sentence of Spanish or not, by pressing one of two buttons as soon as they detected an unacceptable word, or just after the last word for correct sentences.
In natural language processing community, Stanford Parser [ 5- 7] and MINIPAR [ 8] are two leading tools that perform fairly well in recognizing acceptable English sentences.
One of the surprising results of his investigation is that he denies that a correlate of the Deduction Theorem holds, maintaining that a valid argument need not correspond to an acceptable conditional sentence, nor conversely, since the requirements on arguments and conditionals differ.
In this area, as in many others, a nominalist strategy is to supply a nominalistically acceptable paraphrase of sentences that appear to posit abstract entities.
Not all propositions that look like perfectly acceptable candidates for sentence denotations have exemplifying situations.
Therefore, such sentences are acceptable as embedded complements of counterfactual attitude verbs, giving rise to no contradiction in quantificational force.
Furthermore, to the extent that her example sentences are acceptable, they are better understood as being embedded under a covert past attitude verb.
Yaqūb 1993 suggests, in effect, a limit rule whereby acceptable verdicts on unstable sentences at some limit stage η depend on verdicts rendered at other limit stages.
Because all of the test sentences had acceptable continuations, 132 unambiguous sentences were included with clearly unacceptable continuations.
