Informal judgments of sentence acceptability have long been the primary source of evidence
about grammaticality in syntax, and have been controversial just as long. In the past decade …

Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet
the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for …

A central question for psycholinguistics concerns the role of grammatical constraints in
online sentence processing. Many current theories maintain that the language processing …

Judgments of linguistic unacceptability may theoretically arise from either grammatical
deviance or significant processing difficulty. Acceptability data are thus naturally ambiguous …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

The grammar of L will thus be a device that generates all of the grammatical sequences of L
and none of the ungrammatical ones. One way to test the adequacy of a grammar proposed …

This reply revisits the topic of syntactic satiation as first discussed in Snyder 2000. I argue
that the satiation effect reported in Snyder 2000 is the result of a response strategy in which …

This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of
linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenomenon that has long been …

When considering how a complex system operates, the observable behavior depends upon
both architectural properties of the system and the principles governing its operation. The …

In syntactic satiation, a linguist initially judges a sentence type to be unacceptable but
begins to accept it after judging multiple examples over time. When William Snyder first …