{"pk":25656,"title":"Modeling idiosyncratic preferences: How generative knowledge and expression\nfrequency jointly determine language structure","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Most models of choice in language focus on broadly applicable\ngenerative knowledge, treating item-specific variation as\nnoise. Focusing on word order preferences in binomial expressions\n(e.g. bread and butter), we find meaning in the\nitem-specific variation: more frequent expressions have more\npolarized (i.e. frozen) preferences. Of many models considered,\nonly one that takes expression frequency into account can\npredict the language-wide distribution of preference strengths\nseen in corpus data. Our results support a gradient trade-off in\nlanguage processing between generative knowledge and itemspecific\nknowledge as a function of frequency","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Bayesian modeling; binomial expression; frequency;\nword order"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rm1r6jh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Emily","middle_name":"","last_name":"Morgan","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCSD","department":""},{"first_name":"Roger","middle_name":"","last_name":"Levy","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCSD","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25656/galley/15280/download/"}]}