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The associative system of early-learned Hebrew verbs and body parts: a comparative study with American English 早期学习希伯来语动词和身体部位的联想系统:与美国英语的比较研究
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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0038
J. Maouene, Nitya Sethuraman, Sigal Uziel-Karl, S. Hidaka
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引用次数: 0
ABB, a salient prototype of collocate–ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese ABB，汉语并置-表意结构的一个突出原型
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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0031
Thomas Van Hoey
{"title":"ABB, a salient prototype of collocate–ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Thomas Van Hoey","doi":"10.1515/cog-2022-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract ABB words in Chinese, e.g., hēi-qīqī ‘pitch black’, have been studied for a long time. Most traditional studies analyze these words through derivational rules involving empty suffixes. However, this is problematic, as they are better seen as compounds involving a prosaic A and an ideophonic BB part. By treating ABB as a schema sanctioned by collocate–ideophonic constructions, it is possible to investigate other similar patterns. A corpus study (more than 5,000 tokens) revealed that on the level of schemas, ABB truly acts as a prototype of such constructions, but that it is far from the only pattern to be identified. A second corpus-based study on the level of exemplars showed there are different pockets of salience and non-uniformity in the data from four angles: cue validity, frequency, dispersion, and constructional preference. This paper provides evidence that the traditional ABB narrative needs to be complemented with usage-based data, and grapple with the lexical salience effects this brings along for words involving iconicity.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"34 1","pages":"133 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42202527","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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A network of allostructions: quantified subject constructions in Russian 结构网络：俄语中的量化主体结构
IF 1.7 1区 文学
Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0117
T. Nesset, L. Janda
{"title":"A network of allostructions: quantified subject constructions in Russian","authors":"T. Nesset, L. Janda","doi":"10.1515/cog-2021-0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0117","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article contributes to Construction Grammar, historical linguistics, and Russian linguistics through an in-depth corpus study of predicate agreement in constructions with quantified subjects. Statistical analysis of approximately 39,000 corpus examples indicates that these constructions constitute a network of constructions (“allostructions”) with various preferences for singular or plural agreement. Factors pull in different directions, and we observe a relatively stable situation in the face of variation. We present an analysis of a multidimensional network of allostructions in Russian, thus contributing to our understanding of allostructional relationships in Construction Grammar. With regard to historical linguistics, language stability is an understudied field. We illustrate an interplay of divergent factors that apparently resists language change. The syntax of numerals and other quantifiers represents a notoriously complex phenomenon of the Russian language. Our study sheds new light on the contributions of factors that favor singular or plural agreement in sentences with quantified subjects.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"34 1","pages":"67 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49053274","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}
引用次数: 3
Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages 基于用法的语法的暴露和出现:35种语言的计算实验
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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-09 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0106
Jonathan Dunn
{"title":"Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages","authors":"Jonathan Dunn","doi":"10.1515/cog-2021-0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0106","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses computational experiments to explore the role of exposure in the emergence of construction grammars. While usage-based grammars are hypothesized to depend on a learner’s exposure to actual language use, the mechanisms of such exposure have only been studied in a few constructions in isolation. This paper experiments with (i) the growth rate of the constructicon, (ii) the convergence rate of grammars exposed to independent registers, and (iii) the rate at which constructions are forgotten when they have not been recently observed. These experiments show that the lexicon grows more quickly than the grammar and that the growth rate of the grammar is not dependent on the growth rate of the lexicon. At the same time, register-specific grammars converge onto more similar constructions as the amount of exposure increases. This means that the influence of specific registers becomes less important as exposure increases. Finally, the rate at which constructions are forgotten when they have not been recently observed mirrors the growth rate of the constructicon. This paper thus presents a computational model of usage-based grammar that includes both the emergence and the unentrenchment of constructions.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"4 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512065","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}
引用次数: 0
Speed and space: semantic asymmetries in motion descriptions in Estonian 速度和空间:爱沙尼亚语运动描述中的语义不对称
IF 1.7 1区 文学
Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0132
P. Taremaa, Anetta Kopecka
{"title":"Speed and space: semantic asymmetries in motion descriptions in Estonian","authors":"P. Taremaa, Anetta Kopecka","doi":"10.1515/cog-2021-0132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0132","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this study, we investigate the expression of speed—one of the principal dimensions of manner—in relation to the expression of space in Estonian, a satellite-framed and morphology-rich language. Our multivariate and extensive corpus analysis is informed by asymmetries attested in languages with regard to expressing space (the goal-over-source bias) and speed (the fast-over-slow bias) where we attempt to explicitly link the two. We demonstrate moderate speed effects in the data in that fast motion verbs tend to combine with Goal, and slow motion verbs with Location and Trajectory expressions, making verbs of fast motion similar to goal verbs in their clausal behaviour. We also show that semantic congruency (i.e., expressing semantic information repeatedly in motion clauses) overrides the goal-over-source bias. That is, although verbs also occur in diverse patterns, they often combine with semantic units that mirror their meaning: goal verbs tend to combine with Goal, source verbs with Source, and manner verbs with Manner expressions. Such semantic congruency might serve as a tool for construal and, thus, is an important issue for future research.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"34 1","pages":"35 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42136211","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}
引用次数: 1
Comparing linguistic and cultural explanations for visual search strategies 视觉搜索策略的语言和文化解释比较
IF 1.7 1区 文学
Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0105
Brent Wolter, Chi Yui Leung, Shaoxin Wang, Shi-Min Chen, J. Yamashita
{"title":"Comparing linguistic and cultural explanations for visual search strategies","authors":"Brent Wolter, Chi Yui Leung, Shaoxin Wang, Shi-Min Chen, J. Yamashita","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0105","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Visual search studies have shown that East Asians rely more on information gathered through their extrafoveal (i.e., peripheral) vision than do Western Caucasians, who tend to rely more on information gathered using their foveal (i.e., central) vision. However, the reasons for this remain unclear. Cognitive linguists suggest that the difference is attributable linguistic variation, while cultural psychologists contend it is due to cultural factors. The current study used eye-tracking data collected during a visual search task to compare these explanations by leveraging a semantic difference against a cultural difference to determine which view best explained strategies used on the task. The task was administered to Chinese, American, and Japanese participants with a primary focus on the Chinese participants’ behaviors since the semantic difference aligned the Chinese participants with the Americans, while their cultural affiliation aligned them with the Japanese participants. The results indicated that the Chinese group aligned more closely with the American group on most measures, suggesting that semantic differences were more important than cultural affiliation on this particular task. However, there were some results that could not be accounted for by the semantic differences, suggesting that linguistic and cultural factors might affect visual search strategies concurrently.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"33 1","pages":"623 - 657"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46496989","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}
引用次数: 0
Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages 基于用法的语法的暴露和出现：35种语言的计算实验
IF 1.7 1区 文学
Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.18710/CES0L8
Jonathan Dunn
{"title":"Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages","authors":"Jonathan Dunn","doi":"10.18710/CES0L8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18710/CES0L8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper uses computational experiments to explore the role of exposure in the emergence of construction grammars. While usage-based grammars are hypothesized to depend on a learner’s exposure to actual language use, the mechanisms of such exposure have only been studied in a few constructions in isolation. This paper experiments with (i) the growth rate of the constructicon, (ii) the convergence rate of grammars exposed to independent registers, and (iii) the rate at which constructions are forgotten when they have not been recently observed. These experiments show that the lexicon grows more quickly than the grammar and that the growth rate of the grammar is not dependent on the growth rate of the lexicon. At the same time, register-specific grammars converge onto more similar constructions as the amount of exposure increases. This means that the influence of specific registers becomes less important as exposure increases. Finally, the rate at which constructions are forgotten when they have not been recently observed mirrors the growth rate of the constructicon. This paper thus presents a computational model of usage-based grammar that includes both the emergence and the unentrenchment of constructions.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"33 1","pages":"659 - 699"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46640308","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}
引用次数: 3
Force dynamics as the path to the Spanish subjunctive 力量动力学是通往西班牙语虚拟语气的途径
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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-10-17 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0130
Francisco Javier García Yanes
{"title":"Force dynamics as the path to the Spanish subjunctive","authors":"Francisco Javier García Yanes","doi":"10.1515/cog-2021-0130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0130","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The causative construction poses a challenge to all mainstream approaches to Spanish mood. Mejías-Bikandi, Errapel. 2014. A cognitive account of mood in complements of causative predicates in Spanish. Hispania 97(4), 651–665, elaborating on his previous approach (Mejías-Bikandi, Errapel. 1998. Presupposition and old information in the use of the subjunctive mood in Spanish. Hispania 81(4), 941–948), which associates the indicative to information that is pragmatically asserted (i.e., presented as both true and new), claims that the use of the subjunctive in the complements of volitive and causative verbs results from the fact that these complements are not independently grounded and so cannot be asserted. His proposal, though, raises some serious objections. In this paper, an alternative account is presented, whereby the use of the subjunctive in this context is understood as reflecting the antagonist’s viewpoint and epistemic assessment on the goal process within a force dynamics pattern.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"33 1","pages":"767 - 800"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47137421","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}
引用次数: 2
Assessing the complexity of lectal competence: the register-specificity of the dative alternation after give 评估语言能力的复杂性:给予后替代交替的语域特异性
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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-09-22 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0107
Alexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
{"title":"Assessing the complexity of lectal competence: the register-specificity of the dative alternation after give","authors":"Alexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi","doi":"10.1515/cog-2021-0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0107","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"33 1","pages":"727 - 766"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42039044","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}
引用次数: 4
Bilingual processing of verbal and constructional information in English dative constructions: effects of cross-linguistic influence 英语与格结构中言语和结构信息的双语处理：跨语言影响的影响
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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-12 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0122
Hyunwoo Kim, Yunchuan Chen, Xueyan Liu
{"title":"Bilingual processing of verbal and constructional information in English dative constructions: effects of cross-linguistic influence","authors":"Hyunwoo Kim, Yunchuan Chen, Xueyan Liu","doi":"10.1515/cog-2021-0122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0122","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigated the role of cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners’ integration of a verb and a construction during online English sentence processing. In a self-paced reading task, L1-English speakers and Chinese-L1 learners of English read the English double-object and prepositional dative constructions with verbs whose Chinese translation equivalents are either compatible or incompatible with each dative form. When including only a subset of trials for which participants provided expected translations for the target sentences (i.e., translating the English prepositional dative construction into a Chinese prepositional dative sentence and translating the English double-object construction into a Chinese double-object sentence), the effect of cross-linguistic influence emerged only in a certain type of verbs. When including all trials in the analysis, we found the effect of cross-linguistic influence for all verb types. These results provide some evidence that the cross-linguistic activation of verbs can influence verb-construction integration in L2 processing. The study highlights how bilingual co-activation of verbs extends beyond the lexical and structural levels to influence the integration of multiple sources of information.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"33 1","pages":"701 - 726"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49135144","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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