TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Zeschel, Arne T1 - Constructional ‘scene encoding’ and acquisition: Mothers’ use of argument structure constructions in English child-directed speech JF - Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association N2 - Construction-based language models assume that grammar is meaningful and learnable from experience. Focusing on five of the most elementary argument structure constructions of English, a large-scale corpus study of child-directed speech (CDS) investigates exactly which meanings/functions are associated with these patterns in CDS, and whether they are indeed specially indicated to children by their caretakers (as suggested by previous research, cf. Goldberg, Casenhiser and Sethuraman 2004). Collostructional analysis (Stefanowitsch and Gries 2003) is employed to uncover significantly attracted verb-construction combinations, and attracted pairs are classified semantically in order to systematise the attested usage patterns of the target constructions. The results indicate that the structure of the input may aid learners in making the right generalisations about constructional usage patterns, but such scaffolding is not strictly necessary for construction learning: not all argument structure constructions are coherently semanticised to the same extent (in the sense that they designate a single schematic event type of the kind envisioned in Goldberg’s [1995] ‘scene encoding hypothesis’), and they also differ in the extent to which individual semantic subtypes predominate in learners’ input KW - Argumentstruktur KW - argument structure KW - constructional meaning KW - child-directed speech KW - collostructional analysis KW - Kindersprache KW - Englisch UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-94654 SN - 2197-2796 SS - 2197-2796 SN - 2197-2788 SS - 2197-2788 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2013-0008 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2013-0008 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 129 EP - 150 PB - De Gruyter ER -