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Constructional ‘scene encoding’ and acquisition: Mothers’ use of argument structure constructions in English child-directed speech

  • 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

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Author:Arne Zeschel
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-94654
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2013-0008
ISSN:2197-2796
ISSN:2197-2788
Parent Title (English):Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association
Publisher:De Gruyter
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Publicationstate:Zweitveröffentlichung
Reviewstate:Peer review
Tag:argument structure; child-directed speech; collostructional analysis; constructional meaning
GND Keyword:Argumentstruktur; Englisch; Kindersprache
Volume:1
Issue:1
First Page:129
Last Page:150
Open Access?:ja
Leibniz-Classification:Sprache, Linguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Grammatikforschung
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International