{"pk":25639,"title":"Distributional determinants of learning argument structure constructions\nin first and second language","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Learning argument structure constructions is believed to depend\non input properties. In particular, in a cued production\ntask, verb production within each construction has been shown\nto depend on three input factors: frequency of a verb in a construction,\ncontingency of verb–construction mapping, and verb\nsemantic prototypicality. Earlier studies have estimated these\nvalues from a language corpus, without accounting for variation\nin the input to individual learners. We use a computational\nmodel to control for such variation, and our results replicate\nthose reported for human learners. The second issue that we\naddress relates to different ways of representing constructions:\nwhile the earlier studies employ form-only representations, we\nrun an additional analysis for form–meaning representations.\nAgain, the results show the impact of all three input properties\non the verb production, but their relative impact depends on\nthe representations used.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"language learning; argument structure constructions;\nlearning factors; frequency effects"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dz3n8kv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yevgen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Matusevych","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Afra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Alishahi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Ad","middle_name":"","last_name":"Backus","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25639/galley/15263/download/"}]}