Assessing the complexity of lectal competence: the register-specificity of the dative alternation after give

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Alexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
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Abstract

Abstract Recent evidence suggests that probabilistic grammars may be modulated by communication mode and genre. Accordingly, the question arises how complex language users’ lectal competence is, where complexity is proportional to the extent to which choice-making processes depend on the situation of language use. Do probabilistic constraints vary when we talk to a friend compared to when we give a speech? Are differences between spoken and written language larger than those within each mode? In the present study, we aim to approach these questions systematically. Guided by theorizing in cognitive (socio)linguistics and using logistic regression based on corpus materials, we analyzed the dative alternation with give (The government gives farmers money vs. The government gives money to farmers) in four broad registers of English: spoken informal, spoken formal, written informal, and written formal. Corpus analysis was supplemented with a scalar rating experiment. Results suggest that language users’ probabilistic grammars vary as a function of register.
评估语言能力的复杂性:给予后替代交替的语域特异性
摘要最近的证据表明,概率语法可能受到通信模式和类型的调节。因此,出现了一个问题,即语言使用者的演讲能力有多复杂,复杂性与选择过程在多大程度上取决于语言使用情况成正比。与我们演讲时相比,当我们与朋友交谈时,概率约束是否有所不同?口语和书面语言之间的差异是否大于每种模式中的差异?在本研究中,我们旨在系统地处理这些问题。在认知(社会)语言学理论的指导下,使用基于语料库材料的逻辑回归,我们分析了英语四大语域中与格与给予(政府给农民钱vs.政府给农民金钱)的交替:口语-非正式、口语-正式、书面-非正式和书面-正式。语料库分析辅以标量评分实验。结果表明,语言使用者的概率语法随语域的变化而变化。
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期刊介绍: Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon. Topics the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery); the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity; the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics; the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background; the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity.
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