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Publication details [#3943]

Greenbaum, Sidney. 1977. Contextual influence on acceptability judgements. Linguistics 187 : 5–11.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acceptability | context | linguistic intuition

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

It is argued that acceptability judgements are relative rather than absolute: they are influenced by context, sometimes even when a sentence is judged in isolation (in which case a context is often imagined).