VALIDATING THE PERMUTATIONAL TEST OF GRAMMATICALLY.

The permutational test of grammaticality employs the notion of a kernel sentence, defined as subject-verb-object-qualifier (SVOQ). The permutational test of grammaticality relies strongly on the presuppositions underlying generative grammar. The protocols were examined to look for judges who had failed to mark any of the SVOQ sentences. The statistical analysis of the results was based on the scores of the remaining 20 judges. With respect to permutations with a high index of disruption, the experiment was not successful in that factors forcing grammatical judgments out of line with predictions made from the index of disruption were not discovered.