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| Title: | The role of prediction in construction-learning |
| Author: | Adele E. Goldberg |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Princeton University |
| Author: | Devin M. Casenhiser |
| Institution: | Princeton University |
| Author: | Nitya Sethuraman |
| Institution: | University of Michigan-Dearborn |
| Linguistic Field: | Psycholinguistics |
| Abstract: | It is well-established that (non-linguistic) categorization is driven by a functional demand of prediction. We suggest that prediction likewise may well play a role in motivating the learning of semantic generalizations about argument structure constructions. We report corpora statistics that indicate that the argument frame or construction has roughly equivalent cue validity as a predictor of overall sentence meaning as the morphological form of the verb, and has greater category validity. That is, the construction is at least as reliable and more available than the verb. Moreover, given the fact that many verbs have quite low cue validity in isolation, attention to the contribution of the construction is essential. |
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This article appears in Journal of Child Language Vol. 32, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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