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• Recruitment and experiment on web • Participants complete pre-survey • Acceptability in terms of naturalness • Blind-assigned to one of three scales: o Magnitude Estimation: numerical estimation of ratio acceptability relative to reference sentence: “I can’t go into a film that’s already started ” (Annie Hall) o Likert Scale: 7 = perfect; 5 = unwieldy; 3-4 ill-formed; 1-2 uninterpretable o Pairwise Comparison: is the present sentence better, worse or equally wellformed to the previous item • First five sentences are practise items Materials • 148 dialogue excerpts from popular cinema, including film/scene descriptions • Approx 2/3 authentic, 1/3 experimentally altered; 1/3 test sentences, 2/3 fillers. • Investigating productivity of passives and datives.