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Transformational linguists take as their primary data the acceptability and the grammaticality of sentences. This study shows that two and three year olds are better at correcting semantically anomalous than syntactically anomalous sentences. The importance of semantic as opposed to syntactic factors in children's judgments of the acceptability of sentences is stressed.