11 students were asked again to judge the relative grammaticality of the sentences which had been presented repeatedly 4 mo. previously. The repetition treatment involved repeated presentation of the sentences. The findings show that the stringent judgment criterion adopted 4 mo. before is still applied when judging the grammatical sentences. These findings cannot be explained by a satiation theory which does not predict the long-term effect of repetition on judgments of grammaticality.
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