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Using constructions to measure developmental language complexity 利用结构来衡量语言发展的复杂性

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0062

Robert Nelson

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The role of constructions in understanding predictability measures and their correspondence to word duration 构词法在理解可预测性测量中的作用及其与单词持续时间的对应关系

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0077

Joan Bybee, Earl Kjar Brown

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0041

Yiting Chen

{"title":"A related-event approach to event integration in Japanese complex predicates: iconicity, frequency, or efficiency?","authors":"Yiting Chen","doi":"10.1515/cog-2023-0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2023-0041","url":null,"abstract":"Event integration – the conflation of multiple events into a unitary event – plays a vital role in language and cognition. However, the conditions under which event integration occurs in linguistic representation and the differences in how linguistic forms encode complex events remain unclear. This corpus study examines two types of Japanese complex predicates – compound verbs [V1-V2]V and complex predicates consisting of a deverbal compound noun and the light verb suru ‘do’ [[V1-V2]N suru]V – using an original “related-event approach”. Findings indicate that [[V1-V2]N suru]V can be established based on coextensiveness alone, whereas [V1-V2]V typically requires direct or shared causality (“the inevitable co-occurrence constraint”). The related-event approach examines related events of linguistic concepts, such as causes and purposes of an event, identified through “complex sentences” from ultra-large-scale web corpora. This study demonstrates that such an approach is effective in clarifying causal relationships between verbs. Furthermore, this paper contributes to the “iconicity versus frequency” debate by showing that conceptually more accessible events (causality plus coextensiveness) tend to be represented in a simpler form than less accessible events (coextensiveness only), due to “efficiency”. The frequency of usage is a result of the nature of concepts rather than the driving force of coding asymmetries.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141772604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Multimodal constructions revisited. Testing the strength of association between spoken and non-spoken features of Tell me about it 多模态结构重温。测试 "告诉我吧 "的口语和非口语特征之间的关联强度

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0095

Claudia Lehmann

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The colexification of vision and cognition in Mandarin: controlled activity surpasses uncontrolled experience 普通话中视觉与认知的共同作用：有控制的活动超越无控制的经验

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-06-11 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0045

Ying Dai, Yicheng Wu

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The role of entrenchment and schematisation in the acquisition of rich verbal morphology 巩固和图式化在掌握丰富的动词形态中的作用

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0022

Gordana Hržica, Sara Košutar, Tomislava Bošnjak Botica, Petar Milin

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A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions 结构的姊妹关系？用结构引物法模拟奥布乔德构词法网络中的链接

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0103

Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt, Laetitia Van Driessche

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Cognitive approaches to uniformity and variability in morphology 形态统一性和可变性的认知方法

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2024-0027

Petar Milin, Neil Bermel, James P. Blevins

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Ideal and real paradigms: language users, reference works and corpora 理想范式和现实范式：语言使用者、参考资料和语料库

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-06 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0032

Neil Bermel, Luděk Knittl, Martin Alldrick, Alexandre Nikolaev

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Preferences in the use of overabundance: predictors of lexical bias in Estonian 偏好过度使用：爱沙尼亚语词汇偏差的预测因素

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-0035

Mari Aigro, Virve-Anneli Vihman

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