TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
T1  - On the informativity of different measures of linguistic acceptability
T2  - Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America
N2  - This article deals with the claim that the MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION (ME) method of gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than binary or n-point scale judgments. We performed three acceptability-rating experiments that directly compared ME data to binary and seven-point scale data. The results clearly falsify the hypothesis that data gathered by the ME method carry a larger amount of information about the acceptability of a given linguistic phenomenon. The three measures are largely equivalent with respect to informativity. Moreover, ME judgments are shown to be more liable to producing spurious variance under certain circumstances.*
KW  - acceptability judgments
KW  - empirical syntax
KW  - magnitude estimation
KW  - informativity
Y1  - 2011
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36801
SN  - 0097-8507
VL  - 87
IS  - 2
SP  - 249
EP  - 273
PB  - Linguistic Society of America
CY  - Washington
ER  -