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Faulty Japanese sentences are judged more grammatical when punctuation is used : negative implications for Chomsky 's principle of Full Interpretation . 88 adult Japanese speakers judged the grammaticality of isolated simple bitransitive sentences involving an uninterpretable extra argument in addition to three legitimate arguments . The sentences thus violated Chomsky 's principle of Full Interpretation which prohibits the structure building of a sentence including uninterpretable elements . The primary variable of interest was the presence or absence of punctuation , i.e. , commas , which enclosed the extra argument . Findings showed that sentences with punctuation were judged more grammatical than the ones without punctuation , with an average score of judged grammaticality exceeding 3 on a 7-point scale ( 1 =least grammatical ; 7=most grammatical ) . This score would not be expected if the speakers possess and judge the sentences in conformity with the principle of Full Interpretation .
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grammatical
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Chomsky 's principle of Full Interpretation
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uninterpretable extra argument
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legitimate arguments
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grammatical
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Participant_Sample-size
88
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Participant_Age
adult
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Participant_Condition
Japanese