grammaticality
Noun
Meaning
grammaticality (countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalities)
(linguistics) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
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Anomalous Strings: Grammaticality is a continuous, not binary, feature.
Pereira's model assigns an ungrammatical version of the same sentence a lower probability than the syntactically correct form demonstrating that statistical models can learn grammaticality distinctions with minimal linguistic assumptions.
This model could be used to describe all human language and to predict the grammaticality of any given utterance (that is, to predict whether the utterance would sound correct to native speakers of the language).
Thus, even if one were to prescribe a likely and reasonable meaning to the sentence, the grammaticality of the sentence is concrete despite being the first time a person had ever uttered the statement, or any part thereof in such a combination.