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: Received: 13 April 2024 / Approved: 16 April 2024 / Online: 16 April 2024 (13:50:25 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 20 April 2024 / Approved: 22 April 2024 / Online: 22 April 2024 (18:42:22 CEST)
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Alzahrani, A. The Acceptability and Validity of AI-Generated Psycholinguistic Stimuli. Preprints2024, 2024041074. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1074.v1
Alzahrani, A. The Acceptability and Validity of AI-Generated Psycholinguistic Stimuli. Preprints 2024, 2024041074. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1074.v1
Alzahrani, A. The Acceptability and Validity of AI-Generated Psycholinguistic Stimuli. Preprints2024, 2024041074. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1074.v1
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Alzahrani, A. (2024). The Acceptability and Validity of AI-Generated Psycholinguistic Stimuli. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1074.v1
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Alzahrani, A. 2024 "The Acceptability and Validity of AI-Generated Psycholinguistic Stimuli" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1074.v1
Abstract
Sentence stimuli pervade psycholinguistics research. Yet limited attention has been paid to the automatic construction of sentence stimuli. Given their linguistic capabilities, this study investigated the efficacy of ChatGPT/AI tools in generating sentence stimuli. In three psycholinguistic experiments, this study examined the acceptability and validity of AI-formulated auditory sentences and written sentences in two languages: English and Arabic. Participants gave English AI-generated stimuli similar to or higher acceptability ratings than human-composed stimuli, but the opposite was observed for Arabic AI-generated stimuli. The validity of AI-developed stimuli relied on the study design, with only Experiment 2 demonstrating the target psycholinguistic effect (L1/L2 morphosyntactic prediction). These results highlight the promising role of AI as a stimuli developer which could facilitate psycholinguistic research and increase its diversity. Implications for psycholinguistic research were discussed.
Keywords
AI-generated stimuli; psycholinguistic stimuli; ChatGPT; AI for research; auditory stimuli; sentence stimuli
Subject
Social Sciences, Language and Linguistics
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