{"pk":30085,"title":"Frequency-dependent Regularization in Constituent Ordering Preferences","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We examine how idiosyncrasies of specific verbs in syntac-tic constructions affect constituent ordering preferences. Pre-vious work on binomial expressions in English has demon-strated that the polarization of ordering preferences for a givenbinomial type depends on its overall frequency. The higherthe frequency of a binomial type, the stronger and more ex-treme preference/regularization language users will have forone alternative over the other (e.g. “facts and techniques” >“techniques and facts”; “bread and butter” >>> “butter andbread”). Here using the dative constructions in English as thetest case, we show that the same frequency-dependent regular-ization exists in syntactic structures above the word level. Themore frequent a dative construction type is, governed by thehead verb, the stronger preference there is for one alternationover the other. Further, we present evidence that the regulariza-tion patterns can be accounted for via iterated learning model-ing of language change, suggesting that frequency-dependentregularization emerges via the interactions between languageproduction, language learning and cultural transmission.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"idiosyncratic preference; regularization bias; da-tive construction; iterated learning"}],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6f76q2zk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Zoey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Liu","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Davis","department":""},{"first_name":"Emily","middle_name":"","last_name":"Morgan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Davis","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30085/galley/19939/download/"}]}