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| Grammaticality Judgment Task× | Self-Paced Reading Task× | |
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| Field | Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1965 | 1982 |
| Originator≠ | Noam Chomsky (generative-linguistics tradition) | Marcel Just, Patricia Carpenter, and Jacqueline Woolley |
| Type≠ | Introspective elicitation of linguistic competence | Online measure of sentence-processing difficulty |
| Seminal source≠ | Chomsky, N. (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262530071 | Just, M. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Woolley, J. D. (1982). Paradigms and processes in reading comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 111(2), 228–238. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases≠ | Grammaticality Judgement Task, GJT, Sentence Grammaticality Judgment | Self-Paced Reading, Moving-Window Reading, SPR, Word-by-Word Reading Task |
| Related | 3 | 3 |
| Summary≠ | The grammaticality judgment task asks speakers to decide whether a sentence is grammatical — well-formed according to the rules of their language — and treats that decision as evidence about the mental grammar that produces it. Rooted in Noam Chomsky's generative program, where the native speaker's intuition is the primary data of linguistics, the task ranges from a single linguist consulting their own intuitions to large controlled experiments with binary, scaled, or forced-choice responses. It is a workhorse of syntactic theory and of second-language acquisition research, where it probes what learners know about a target language beyond what they can produce. | The self-paced reading task — Just, Carpenter, and Woolley's moving-window paradigm — measures sentence comprehension as it unfolds. Participants read a sentence one word (or phrase) at a time, pressing a button to reveal each segment and hide the previous one, and the software logs how long each segment stays on screen. Those per-region reading times index processing difficulty: when the parser stumbles — at a garden-path disambiguation, an unexpected word, or a long-distance dependency — reading slows, and the slowdown localizes the difficulty to a specific region of the sentence. It is one of the simplest and most widely used online measures in psycholinguistics. |
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