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What does ungrammatical mean?

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Adjective
  1. (linguistics) In violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language as defined by the grammar, resulting in unacceptable, or incorrect, usage.
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Identification takes place by noticing subtle differences between grammatical and ungrammatical utterances.
The problem is not that the sentence is ungrammatical, but rather that it doesn't say what I mean.
The second problem with behavioral theory that Chomsky identified was that children are not reprimanded for uttering ungrammatical sentences.
I'm so confident that such sentences are ungrammatical that I would be prepared to lecture it to a hostile audience.
This is a normal example of syntactic and semantic change in progress, and I'm certainly not about to say that these sentences are ungrammatical.
The reliable finding is that participants give consistently higher liking ratings to novel grammatical strings than novel ungrammatical strings.

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