한국어 수용성판단 자료의 학술지간 비교

A Comparison of Korean Acceptability Data in the Journals

The reliability of linguists’ introspective judgments of sentence acceptability has often been called into question. In this study we compare the large-scale replication studies conducted for published acceptability judgments given in the journals Linguistic Inquiry (Sprous et al. 2013), Studies in Generative Grammar (Cho et al. 2019) and Kwukehak ‘Korean Linguistics’. We make two observations about these replication studies. First, we note that English acceptability judgments in Linguistic Inquiry may be more reliable than Korean judgments in the other two journals. Secondly, the convergence rates between informal and formal judgment tasks in the journal Kwukehak are higher than those in the Studies in Generative Grammar, although both journals display significantly lower convergence rates than the Linguistic Inquiry. Our results may suggest that the peer review of Korean judgments in these journals may be insufficient or other factors may be involved.