Linguistic intuitions are about communicativeness, not grammaticalness

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<p>People have spontaneous intuitions about the acceptability of sentences. "She gave me a book" is acceptable in English but "She gived I a book" is not. These intuitions are critical for the scientific study of language and cognition in many ways. They are widely assumed to be outputs of an intuitive sense of grammaticalness, and this assumption has provided the basis for many influential research programs, over...

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fc4b1805-2647-543c-ae50-29f9305e2b26

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10.31234/osf.io/qvrmk