Learning argument structure generalizations

By Adele E. Goldberg, Devin M. Casenhiser, Nitya Sethuraman. 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives (2015, background): “Previous research has shown that the meaning of a construction can be largely traced back to its verbal distribution (Goldberg et al., 2004; Stefanowitsch & Gries, 2003).”
Constructing a second language: Analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic constructions from usage. (2009, unknown): “Goldberg et al. (2004) showed that Zipf’s 95 Language Learning 59:Suppl.”
The processing of verb-argument constructions is sensitive to form, function, frequency, contingency and prototypicality (2014, background): “Goldberg et al. (2004) demonstrated that in samples of child language acquisition, for a small number of example verb-argument constructions studied, there is a strong tendency for one single verb (such as give in the ditransitive) to occur with very high frequency in comparison to other verbs…”
Constructions, Chunking, and Connectionism: The Emergence of Second Language Structure (2008, background): “(Goldberg, 1995, p. 39) Goldberg and Sethuraman (1999) show how individual “pathbreaking” semantically prototypic verbs form the seed of verb-centered argument structure patterns.”
The acquisition of tense-aspect: Converging evidence from corpora and telicity ratings (2009, unknown): “For syntactic constructions, Goldberg et al. (2004) tested whether when training novel patterns (a construction of the form [Subj Obj V-o] signaling the appearance of the subject in a particular location; e.g., the king the ball moopo-ed) exemplified by five different novel verbs, it is better to…”
Usage‐Based Language: Investigating the Latent Structures That Underpin Acquisition (2013, background): “…that Zipfian distributional properties of language usage helps to make language learnable has just begun to be explored for a small number of VACs in first (Goldberg, 2006; Goldberg et al., 2004) and second language acquisition (Ellis & Ferreira-Junior, 2009a, 2009b; Ellis & LarsenFreeman, 2009a).”
FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2002, unknown): “(p. 39) Goldberg and Sethuraman (1999) showed how individual, semantically pro-totypic verbs are “pathbreakers” in that they seed the growth of verb-centered argument-structure patterns.”
Converging evidence: Bringing together experimental and corpus data on the association of verbs and constructions (2005, methodology): “One step towards testing insights arising from the linguist’s intuition and introspection is to relate them to an analysis of naturalistic usage data as provided by corpora (cf., e.g., papers in Barlow and Kemmer 2000; Boas 2003; Diessel 2004; Goldberg et al. 2004).”
Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements (2006, background): “Goldberg and co-workers (Casenhiser & Goldberg, 2005; Goldberg, 1999, 2005; Goldberg et al., 2004) have argued that semantically general, high frequency verbs which occur with high frequency in individual constructions facilitate the acquisition of syntax.”
The nature of generalization in language (2009, background): “The experiments summarized in CW chapter 4 expose subjects to pairings of novel phrasal forms and novel meanings, while testing learners’ ability to generalize beyond the input (see also Goldberg et al. 2004; Casenhiser and Goldberg 2005).”
The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions (2004, background): “…argument structure of the sentence by general principles of argument linking.8 This is, of course, no accident—productive constructions likely arise from speakers generalizing over verbs that lexically specify the corresponding forms and meanings (Casenhiser & Goldberg 2004, Goldberg et al. 2004).”
Assessing syntactic sophistication in L2 writing: A usage-based approach (2017, background): “L1 studies suggest that VACs (and other constructions) are learned as a function of frequency (Goldberg et al., 2004; Lieven et al., 1997; Ninio, 1999).”