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gen.native speaker's intuitionчувство языка (A native speaker's intuition is his/her ability to distinguish grammatical utterances from ungrammatical ones, to classify sentences as acceptable or unacceptable, or to interpret and explain ambiguous utterances. uos.de Alexander Demidov)
gen.speaker's intuitionчувство языка (This is a fancy way of saying "your natural understanding of what is acceptable in English." Perfect English Grammar by Grant Barrett. We knew that our approach should be corpus-based as previous studies have shown that a speaker's intuition is usually an unreliable guide to patterns of collocation and that intuition is an even poorer guide to semantic prosody. Semantic Prosody: A Critical Evaluation By Dominic Stewart Alexander Demidov)

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