Which pair of terms, coined by Noam Chomsky in 1965, refers to native speakers' intuitive judgments about whether sentences are grammatically correct or not?

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Noam Chomsky introduced the terms 'Acceptable' and 'Unacceptable' to capture native speakers' intuitive sense of grammatical correctness in sentences, distinguishing those that conform to grammatical rules from those that do not.

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Which pair of terms, coined by Noam Chomsky in 1965, refers to native speakers' intuitive judgments about whether sentences are grammatically correct or not?

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