Admitting that admitting verb sense into corpus analyses makes sense

被引:44
作者
Hare, M [1 ]
McRae, K
Elman, JL
机构
[1] Bowling Green State Univ, Dept Psychol, Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA
[2] Univ Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
[3] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
来源
LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES | 2004年 / 19卷 / 02期
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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D O I
10.1080/01690960344000152
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
Linguistic and psycholinguistic research has documented that there exists a close relationship between a verb's meaning and the syntactic structures in which it occurs, and that learners and comprehenders take advantage of this relationship both in acquisition and in processing. We address implications of these facts for issues in structural ambiguity resolution, arguing that comprehenders are sensitive to meaning-structure correlations based not on the verb itself but on its specific senses, and that they exploit this information on-line. We demonstrate that individual verbs show significant differences in their subcategorisation profiles across three corpora, and that cross-corpora bias estimates are much more stable when sense is taken into account. Finally, we show that consistency between sense-contingent subcategorisation biases and experimenters' classifications largely predicts results of recent experiments. Thus comprehenders learn and exploit meaning-form correlations at the level of individual verb senses, rather than the verb in the aggregate.
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页码:181 / 224
页数:44
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