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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Grammaticality Judgment
Hi!
I am Italian. I am looking for some grammaticality/acceptability judgments from English native speakers.
Any of you available? If so, please reply here and I will send you my email.
I am trying to figure out some patterns in the iterations of linguistics units. It would be useful if you could give a different degree of acceptability, from 0 (not acceptable) to 10 (perfectly fine) to the following phrases. You are welcome to add comments to your judgments. THANKS!
1. Gianni is handsome handsome handsome!
2. He ate ate, he did not just nibble.
3. He ate candy candy candy… until he became fat.
4. He ate candies, candies, candies… until he became fat.
5. He ate ice-cream ice-creams, not diet ice-creams.
6. He ate ice-creams ice-creams, not diet ice-creams.
7. He cried-cried, he did not just sob.
8. He did not restrict himself to scribble a couple of lines. He wrote wrote.
9. He did not restrict himself to scribble a couple of lines. He wrote wrote me.
10. He did not restrict himself to scribble a couple of lines. He wrote me wrote.
11. He flaked off flaked off, he did not hint.
12. He is not handsome in the sense of charming: he is handsome handsome, the classic handsome man.
13. He jumped, jumped, jumped. He could not get enough of jumping.
14. He liked the salami. The salami continued to please him, please him, please him, until he became 80 pounds.
15. He liked the salami. The salami continued to please him, please, please, until he became 80 pounds.
16. He s not handsome handsome, but people like him.
17. He was pestering me. He wrote me, wrote me…
18. He was pestering me. He wrote, wrote
…
19. He was walking a long long trail.
20. I am absolutely absolutely happy.
21. I am very very happy.
22. I did not get all of money of his get all of money of his.
23. I did not take him to the cleaners-take him to the cleaners.
24. I did not take John to the cleaners-take John to the cleaners.
25. I do not mean you have to please him as a person. But to please him please him.
26. I do not mean you have to please him as a person. But to please please him.
27. I do not want a hot tea that ends up being just warm, I want it hot hot.
28. I do not want lemon-flavored water. I want water water.
29. I wouldn’t take-her-to-task take-her-to-task.
30. In that house there were puppets, puppets...
31. It is not that he took a small leap. He jumped jumped.
32. It was hot hot, that day.
33. Laura cried, cried…
34. Luigi ate ate, until he burst.
35. Luigi has eaten has eaten, until he has burst.
36. Luisa drinks water, water, water…
37. Luisa eats candies, candies, candies…
38. Mauro speaks, speaks, he never stops.
39. Mauro speaks, speaks, speaks, he never stops.
40. Mauro speaks-speaks, he does not stay there whispering.
41. Mauro speaks-speaks-speaks, he does not stay there whispering.
42. My sister is greedy. With the money she had, she bought ice creams, ice creams, ice creams...
43. She did not buy soy ice cream or other nonsense. She bought ice creams ice creams.
44. She does not have a hysterical pregnancy. That girl is pregnant pregnant.
45. That girl is not only taller than me or you, we’re small. She is tall tall!
46. That girl is one-eighty: she is tall tall!
47. That girl is pregnant pregnant.
48. That’s wine wine, not boxed wine.
49. The girl is pregnant pregnant.
50. The girl is sweet sweet.
51. The ice-cream we produce is uniquely uniquely nice.
52. The ice-cream we produce is very very nice.
53. The lift was going up, up…
54. The movie is appalling appalling.
55. The movie is bad bad.
56. The river passes under the bridge and carries water, water...
57. The table is big big.
58. The table is black black.
59. They walk, walk, walk…
60. They were talking low low.
61. This is a candy-candy, not a sore-throat lozenge.
62. This is not a long path for Sunday walkers. It is long long, for experts.
63. Those boys are tall tall.
64. We kissed, kissed, kissed…
65. We took them to the cleaners-took them to the cleaners, not just sue them.
I am Italian. I am looking for some grammaticality/acceptability judgments from English native speakers.
Any of you available? If so, please reply here and I will send you my email.
I am trying to figure out some patterns in the iterations of linguistics units. It would be useful if you could give a different degree of acceptability, from 0 (not acceptable) to 10 (perfectly fine) to the following phrases. You are welcome to add comments to your judgments. THANKS!
1. Gianni is handsome handsome handsome!
2. He ate ate, he did not just nibble.
3. He ate candy candy candy… until he became fat.
4. He ate candies, candies, candies… until he became fat.
5. He ate ice-cream ice-creams, not diet ice-creams.
6. He ate ice-creams ice-creams, not diet ice-creams.
7. He cried-cried, he did not just sob.
8. He did not restrict himself to scribble a couple of lines. He wrote wrote.
9. He did not restrict himself to scribble a couple of lines. He wrote wrote me.
10. He did not restrict himself to scribble a couple of lines. He wrote me wrote.
11. He flaked off flaked off, he did not hint.
12. He is not handsome in the sense of charming: he is handsome handsome, the classic handsome man.
13. He jumped, jumped, jumped. He could not get enough of jumping.
14. He liked the salami. The salami continued to please him, please him, please him, until he became 80 pounds.
15. He liked the salami. The salami continued to please him, please, please, until he became 80 pounds.
16. He s not handsome handsome, but people like him.
17. He was pestering me. He wrote me, wrote me…
18. He was pestering me. He wrote, wrote
…19. He was walking a long long trail.
20. I am absolutely absolutely happy.
21. I am very very happy.
22. I did not get all of money of his get all of money of his.
23. I did not take him to the cleaners-take him to the cleaners.
24. I did not take John to the cleaners-take John to the cleaners.
25. I do not mean you have to please him as a person. But to please him please him.
26. I do not mean you have to please him as a person. But to please please him.
27. I do not want a hot tea that ends up being just warm, I want it hot hot.
28. I do not want lemon-flavored water. I want water water.
29. I wouldn’t take-her-to-task take-her-to-task.
30. In that house there were puppets, puppets...
31. It is not that he took a small leap. He jumped jumped.
32. It was hot hot, that day.
33. Laura cried, cried…
34. Luigi ate ate, until he burst.
35. Luigi has eaten has eaten, until he has burst.
36. Luisa drinks water, water, water…
37. Luisa eats candies, candies, candies…
38. Mauro speaks, speaks, he never stops.
39. Mauro speaks, speaks, speaks, he never stops.
40. Mauro speaks-speaks, he does not stay there whispering.
41. Mauro speaks-speaks-speaks, he does not stay there whispering.
42. My sister is greedy. With the money she had, she bought ice creams, ice creams, ice creams...
43. She did not buy soy ice cream or other nonsense. She bought ice creams ice creams.
44. She does not have a hysterical pregnancy. That girl is pregnant pregnant.
45. That girl is not only taller than me or you, we’re small. She is tall tall!
46. That girl is one-eighty: she is tall tall!
47. That girl is pregnant pregnant.
48. That’s wine wine, not boxed wine.
49. The girl is pregnant pregnant.
50. The girl is sweet sweet.
51. The ice-cream we produce is uniquely uniquely nice.
52. The ice-cream we produce is very very nice.
53. The lift was going up, up…
54. The movie is appalling appalling.
55. The movie is bad bad.
56. The river passes under the bridge and carries water, water...
57. The table is big big.
58. The table is black black.
59. They walk, walk, walk…
60. They were talking low low.
61. This is a candy-candy, not a sore-throat lozenge.
62. This is not a long path for Sunday walkers. It is long long, for experts.
63. Those boys are tall tall.
64. We kissed, kissed, kissed…
65. We took them to the cleaners-took them to the cleaners, not just sue them.
Top answer
Hi, 65 items are too many for me to look at in detail. Consider this. Comma-less repetition like the following is not acceptable.
- Hi, 65 items are too many for me to look at in detail.
- Consider this.
- Comma-less repetition like the following is not acceptable.
- 1.
- Gianni is handsome handsome handsome!
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3 Answers
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Hi,
65 items are too many for me to look at in detail.
Consider this.
Comma-less repetition like the following is not acceptable.
1. Gianni is handsome handsome handsome!
2. He ate ate, he did not
65 items are too many for me to look at in detail.
Consider this.
Comma-less repetition like the following is not acceptable.
1. Gianni is handsome handsome handsome!
2. He ate ate, he did not
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Hi!
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I am posting the revised list.
Actually, one of my issue was about the repetition of the items you are referring to. One detail: would they be better with a comma, as if you were repeating several times just to emphasize?
Here is the list, by the way.
Thanks again.
1. He ate-ate, he did not just nibble.
2. H
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I am posting the revised list.
Actually, one of my issue was about the repetition of the items you are referring to. One detail: would they be better with a comma, as if you were repeating several times just to emphasize?
Here is the list, by the way.
Thanks again.
1. He ate-ate, he did not just nibble.
2. H
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Hi,
Simply stringing repetitions together with hyphens is far from standard English.
If you do it with commas, the basic format is A, B and C.
Simply repeating words in the way that you are trying to do is a feature of cas
Simply stringing repetitions together with hyphens is far from standard English.
If you do it with commas, the basic format is A, B and C.
Simply repeating words in the way that you are trying to do is a feature of cas
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