Sentence examples for formal acceptability from inspiring English sources

The talk has two main parts: first, I propose and motivate a cross-linguistically valid operational measure of flexibility in constituent order using formal acceptability judgment experiments.

However, AMT has yet to be widely adopted by syntacticians who run formal acceptability experiments.

This preparation is currently in use in studies in Ghana and Malawi where it has had formal acceptability testing.

The primary concern among syntacticians is that moving formal acceptability judgments out of the experimenter-controlled environment of the laboratory and onto the user-controlled environment of AMT may adversely affect the quality of the data collected and potentially negate the quantitative advantages that motivate formal experiments in the first place.

Of course, the additional information gained by formal acceptability experiments is offset by the fact that they take considerably more time to deploy than informal acceptability experiments: an informal experiment can be conducted in a matter of minutes, whereas formal experiments can require several weeks for recruiting and running a full sample (e.g., 25 30 participants).

Given that the standard sample size in formal acceptability judgments is 25 30 and that it is standard to give each participant more than one judgment per condition, it seems unlikely that syntacticians would notice the slight power loss under normal experimental design conditions.

In this work, we provide a formal characterization of acceptability semantics directly on the ASAF, without requiring such a translation.

No formal study of acceptability or feasibility has been reported.

- be socially acceptable (acceptability pillar).

The performance evaluation phase included a formal assessment of usability, acceptability, and feasibility.

Much of this debate concerns the acceptability of formal versus material definitions of morality (see the entry on the definition of morality).