Investigating elicited data from a usage-based perspective

Nordquist, Dawn

doi:10.1515/cllt.2009.005

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“…Within this field, word associations are also considered a useful tool to reveal information about the organization of the lexicon (Mollin 2009, Fitzpatrick et al 2011) and the lexical retrieval process (Nordquist 2009). The term 'word association' originated in psychology to refer to the word or words that first come to mind in response to a subject being presented with a stimulus word.…”

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“…Several comparisons between corpus data and word associations have been carried out previously (Mollin 2009;Nordquist 2009), but they have been mostly based on collocational information, aiming to test the psycholinguistic reality or relevance of collocations extracted from corpora. Indeed, from a usage-based perspective, the hypothesis that conventionalized linguistic structures should appear both in corpora and elicited data is a compelling one (Nordquist 2009).…”

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“…Indeed, from a usage-based perspective, the hypothesis that conventionalized linguistic structures should appear both in corpora and elicited data is a compelling one (Nordquist 2009). In addition, several computational models of language have aimed to predict word associations by using word co-occurrence information from diverse corpora (Church et al 1989;Wettler and Rapp 1993;Peirsman and Geeraerts 2009;Sahlgren 2006;Michelbacher et al 2007).…”

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Verb similarity: Comparing corpus and psycholinguistic data

Gil-Vallejo

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Masalles

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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Similarity, which plays a key role in fields like cognitive science, psycholinguistics and natural language processing, is a broad and multifaceted concept. In this work we analyse how two approaches that belong to different perspectives, the corpus view and the psycholinguistic view, articulate similarity between verb senses in Spanish. Specifically, we compare the similarity between verb senses based on their argument structure, which is captured through semantic roles, with their similarity defined by word associations. We address the question of whether verb argument structure, which reflects the expression of the events, and word associations, which are related to the speakers' organization of the mental lexicon, shape similarity between verbs in a congruent manner, a topic which has not been explored previously. While we find significant correlations between verb sense similarities obtained from these two approaches, our findings also highlight some discrepancies between them and the importance of the degree of abstraction of the corpus annotation and psycholinguistic representations.

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Verb similarity: Comparing corpus and psycholinguistic data

Gil-Vallejo

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Masalles

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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“…If there is such a threshold, its value remains to be empirically determined (Nordquist 2009 of N-grams of various lengths (including quadgrams). In the production onset time analysis, log probabilities of use were the most important variable family and accounted for 0.93% of the total variability in the data, closely followed by mutual information values (0.85%) and finally by frequencies of occurrence (0.21%).…”

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“…An empirically based frequency/probability threshold for the holistic storage of an N-gram remains to be determined (Nordquist 2009). However, the results of the chunk recall experiment with electro-encephalogram recordings (EEG) provide a possible answer to this question, at least for stand-alone, phrasal quadgrams (i.e., in the United States , they don't have to , she was going to , and he shook his head versus non-phrasal ones such as but there is no , the result of a , and I don't think it's ).…”

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Empirical evidence for an inflationist lexicon

Tremblay¹

2012

Yearbook of Phraseology

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Although Generative and Cognitive grammars both assume that some linguistic forms are stored as wholes while others are strung together from simpler parts, they differ with respect to the units that may be stored in the lexicon, and therefore in the rules that combine them. Within the Generative framework, the determining factor for storage is regularity. In contrast, for Cognitive grammarians frequency of use is an important factor determining whether a form is stored as a whole or (de)composed on-line.The studies summarized in this paper show that speakers are sensitive not only to the (continuous) frequency/probability of use of single words but also of compositional bigrams (I really), trigrams (I really like), and quadgrams (I really like it). They clearly support the Cognitive view of a redundant, inflationist lexicon that is comprised of a myriad of more or less entrenched linguistic units of different lengths. Implications regarding the entrenchment of N-grams, the opacity of an entrenched N-gram, and the threshold for holistic storage of an N-gram are discussed.

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Word association research and the L2 lexicon

Fitzpatrick

Thwaites

2020

Lang. Teach.

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Since its modern inception in the late nineteenth century, research on word associations has developed into a large and diverse area of study, including work with both applied linguistic and psycholinguistic orientations. However, despite significant recent interest in the use of word association to investigate second language (L2) vocabulary knowledge and testing, there has until now been no systematic attempt to review the wider word association research tradition for the benefit of L2-oriented researchers and practitioners. This paper seeks to address this, drawing together linguistic research from the past 150 years, with a focus on research published since 2000. We evaluate the current state of L2 word association research, before identifying methodological and theoretical themes from a broader range of disciplinary approaches. Emerging from this, new paradigms are identified which have potential to catalyse a new phase of work for second language word association scholars, and which indicate priority foci for future work.

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Investigating elicited data from a usage-based perspective

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Verb similarity: Comparing corpus and psycholinguistic data

Verb similarity: Comparing corpus and psycholinguistic data

Empirical evidence for an inflationist lexicon

Word association research and the L2 lexicon

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