Are corpus-based predictions mirrored in the preferential choices and ratings of native speakers? Predicting the alternation between the Estonian adessive case and the adposition &lt;i&gt;peal&lt;/i&gt; ‘on’

Klavan, Jane; Veismann, Ann

doi:10.12697/jeful.2017.8.2.03

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“…Similar results have been found for the Estonian adessive ~ peal alternation (Klavan 2012, Klavan, Pilvik & Uiboaed 2015, Klavan & Veismann 2017. The main morphosyntactic variables that play a role in the choice between the adessive case and the postposition peal is the length and complexity of the phrase that is inflected for the case or is used with the postposition 1 : the longer and more complex the phrase is, the more probable it is that the preferred choice is the case ending.…”

Section: Alternation Between Estonian Exterior Locative Cases and Postpositionssupporting

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“…Klavan (2012Klavan ( , 2020 has confirmed these results for present-day written Estonian (mainly fiction and newspaper texts) and Klavan, Pilvik and Uiboaed (2015) for non-standard spoken Estonian. Klavan and Veismann (2017) have provided additional experimental evidence to support the corpus-based claims. The aim of this paper is to broaden the scope of previous studies by looking at three alternations simulta neously (thereby extending the scope of alternating pairs) and by extending the source of corpus data from written Estonian to web-based texts (thereby extending the scope of variety).…”

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“…These studies show that the likelihood of finding a particular linguistic variant in a particular context in a corpus corresponds to the intuition that speakers have about the acceptability or the preferred choice of the variants. Klavan and Veismann (2017), for example, used a forced choice task and an acceptability judgement task based on authentic corpus materials as stimuli to model subjects' responses regarding the naturalness of adessive and peal constructions in context. Subjects' responses were compared to the predictions of the regression model fitted by Klavan (2012) to the adessive ~ peal alternation.…”

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The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts

Klavan

2021

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Abstract. A probabilistic grammar approach to language assumes that grammatical knowledge has a probabilistic component and that this probabilistic knowledge of language is derived from language experience. It is assumed that the extent and nature of grammatical knowledge is reflected in language variation. In the present paper, the probabilistic variation patterns of the Estonian exterior locative cases and the corresponding postpositions are determined by exploring a large, manually annotated dataset of Estonian web texts. It is proposed that there are both similarities and differences in the morphosyntactic knowledge on the part of Estonian speakers as pertains to the three alternations: allative ~ peale ‘onto’, adessive ~ peal ‘on’, ablative ~ pealt ‘off’. The study points towards the stability and direction of the factors that have been found significant in the previous studies. Multivariate analysis of corpus data shows that the grammatical knowledge of Estonian exterior cases and the corresponding postpositions is probabilistic and regulated by both morphosyntactic and semantic factors. Kokkuvõte. Jane Klavan: Eesti keele väliskohakäänete ja kaassõnade peal, peale, pealt kasutus eestikeelses veebis. Tõenäosusliku grammatika raamistikus eeldatakse, et grammatiline teadmine hõlmab endas tõenäosuslikku komponenti ja et see tõenäosuslik komponent pärineb suures osas keele kasutuse kogemusest. Sellistelt põhimõtetelt lähtuvate uurimuste eesmärgiks on mõõta grammatilise teadmise ulatust ja olemust nagu see peegeldub keelelises varieeruvuses. Esitan suuremahulise korpusuurimuse eesti keele väliskohakäänete ja nendega rööpselt tarvitatavate kaassõnade (peale, peal, pealt) paralleelsest kasutusest eestikeelsetel veebilehtedel. Korpusandmete multifaktoriaalne analüüs näitab, et grammatiline teadmine sellest rööpsest kasutusest on tõenäosuslik ja et seda reguleerivad nii morfosüntaktilised kui semantilised tegurid.

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The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts

Klavan

2021

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“…Nähtust, kui keeles esineb mitu konstruktsiooni, millel on lähedane tähendus ning mis on üksteisega asendatavad, on nimetatud grammatiliseks, täpsemalt süntaktiliseks (lähi)sünonüümiaks (vt nt Klavan 2012, Glynn & Robinson 2014 või ka konstruktsiooniliseks vahel duseks (ingl alternation) (nt Arppe 2009, vt ka ülevaadet Gries 2017). Konstruktsioonilist vaheldust eesti keeles on varem uuritud eelkõige kas eri käände vormide või käände ja kaassõna kasutuse vaatepunktist (Klavan 2012, Klavan, Pilvik & Uiboaed 2015, Ruutma jt 2016, Klavan & Veismann 2017, Siiman 2018. Näiteks on Jane Klavan ja Ann Veismann (2017) uurinud adessiivi käände ja kaassõna peal kasutust (seda nii korpus-kui ka katseandmete põhjal).…”

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Demonstratiivpronoomenid ja -adverbid määratlejatena. Miks me oleme siin ilmas, selles olukorras?

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Kokkuvõte. Artiklis analüüsime eesti keele demonstratiivide referentsiaalseid omadusi sellistes konstruktsioonides, kus demonstratiivid kuuluvad definiitse määratlejana nimisõnafraasi koosseisu. Otsime vastust küsimusele, mille poolest erinevad demonstratiivadverb (nt siin, seal) ning demonstratiivpronoomen (see, too), kui need esinevad määratlejana koos kohakäändes nimisõnafraasiga (vrd siin koolis ja selles koolis). Oleme püstitanud hüpoteesi, et demonstratiivadverbid seostuvad ruumitähendust väljendavate substantiividega, demonstratiivpronoomenid esinevad aga nende substantiividega, mille referent on mitteruumiline. Uurimuse andmestik pärineb 2017. aasta eesti keele ühendkorpusest, kust oleme võtnud 100 lauset iga demonstratiivi kohta igas kohakäändes, seega kokku 2400 lauset. Materjali analüüsime kvantitatiivselt (tingimuslike otsustuspuude ja juhumetsadega) ning kvalitatiivselt. Uurimuse tulemused kinnitavad, et substantiivi semantilised omadused, täpsemalt substantiivi semantiline klass ning konkreetsus, on seotud määratleja valikuga. Kohatähenduses substantiividega esineb määratlejana sagedamini demonstratiivadverb, mittekoha tähenduses substantiivide määratlejana kasutatakse aga demonstratiivpronoomenit. Mittekohta tähistavate substantiivide korral mõjutab määratleja valikut omakorda sõna konkreetsus. Seega on võimalik demonstratiivseid määratlejaid eesti keeles kasutada referenti looval viisil. Abstract. Helen Hint, Piia Taremaa, Maria Reile, Renate Pajusalu: Demonstrative pronouns and demonstrative adverbs as determiners in Estonian: why are we in “here world” in “this situation”? We investigate the variation of definite determiner constructions in Estonian: noun phrases with a demonstrative pronoun (see ‘this’, too ‘that’) or demonstrative adverb (siin ‘here’, seal ‘there’) as a determiner are contrasted. The question is what differentiates the use of a demonstrative pronoun and a demonstrative adverb if used in a determiner position in an NP. The data from Estonian National Corpus 2017 were tagged for semantic class of a noun, noun concreteness, and verb type. We collected 100 clauses for each sub-construction (six spatial cases crossed with four determiner forms), 2400 clauses in total. For statistical analysis, we used conditional random forests and inference trees. We show that nouns expressing spatial meaning prefer demonstrative adverbs as determiners, while non-spatial nouns combine with demonstrative pronouns. Spatiality-wise polysemous nouns exhibit more varied preferences. Adverbial determiners are more probably used with concrete nouns, and abstract nouns co-occur with pronominals. Overall, the frequency of demonstrative adverbs as NP attributes confirms that demonstrative adverbs are productive determiners in Estonian.

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“…Before we formulate the objectives of the present study, we would like to discuss the implicit assumptions behind the hypotheses tested in the previous research. The fundamental idea concerns the nature of grammatical knowledge: if grammar is probabilistic, 3 A similar comparison of methods was reported in Klavan and Veismann (2017), which compared the performance of a corpus-based language model against the results of two rating experiments: forced-choice and Likert scale. The results of the study show that forced-choice data provides a slightly better reflection of the corpus than Likert scale data.…”

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Intralingual Variation in Acceptability Judgments and Production: Three Case Studies in Russian Grammar

Gerasimova

Lyutikova

2020

Front. Psychol.

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This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production and rating experiments in the context of language variation. We address the following research question: how may the grammatical options available to a single speaker be distributed in the two domains of production and perception? We argue that previous studies comparing acceptability judgments and frequencies of occurrence suffer from significant limitations. We approach the correspondence of production and perception data by adopting an experimental design different from those used in previous research: (i) instead of using a corpus we use production data obtained experimentally from respondents who are later asked to make judgments, (ii) instead of pairwise phenomena we examine language variation, (iii) judgments are collected formally using the conditions and materials from the production experiment, (iv) we analyze the behavior of each participant across the production and acceptability judgment experiments. In particular, we examine three phenomena of variation in Russian: case variation in nominalizations, gender mismatch, and case variation in paucal constructions. Our results show that there is substantial alignment between acceptability ratings and frequency of occurrence. However, the distribution of frequencies and acceptability scores do not always correlate. Speakers are not consistent in choosing a single variant across the two types of experiment. Importantly, the types of inconsistency they display differ, which means that the variation can be characterized from this point of view. We conclude that the degree of coherence of the two experiments reflects the effects of the evolution of variation over time. Another result is that elicited production and acceptability judgments vary with respect to how they reveal variation in language. In the case of the development or disappearance of variants, production indicates this earlier than judgments, and the rating task has the effect of restricting the choices available to respondents. However, the production method should not thereby be considered more sensitive. We argue that only a combination of production and judgment data makes it possible to estimate the directionality of changes in variability and to see the full distribution of different variants.

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Are corpus-based predictions mirrored in the preferential choices and ratings of native speakers? Predicting the alternation between the Estonian adessive case and the adposition <i>peal</i> ‘on’

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts

The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts

Demonstratiivpronoomenid ja -adverbid määratlejatena. Miks me oleme siin ilmas, selles olukorras?

Intralingual Variation in Acceptability Judgments and Production: Three Case Studies in Russian Grammar

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