More frequent verbs are associated with more diverse valency frames: Efficient principles at the lexicon-grammar interface
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angličtina
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More frequent verbs are associated with more diverse valency frames: Efficient principles at the lexicon-grammar interface
Original language description
A substantial body of work has provided evidence that the lexicons of natural languages are organized to support efficient communication. However, existing work has largely focused on word-internal properties, such as Zipf's observation that more frequent words are optimized in form to minimize communicative cost. Here, we investigate the hypothesis that efficient lexicon organization is also reflected in valency, or the combinations and orders of additional words and phrases a verb selects for in a sentence. We consider two measures of valency diversity for verbs: valency frame count (VFC), the number of distinct frames associated with a verb, and valency frame entropy (VFE), the average information content of frame selection associated with a verb. Using data from 79 languages, we provide evidence that more frequent verbs are associated with a greater diversity of valency frames, suggesting that the organization of valency is consistent with communicative efficiency principles. We discuss our findings in relation to classical findings such as Zipf's meaning-frequency law and the principle of least effort, as well as implications for theories of valency and communicative efficiency principles. © 2024 Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Type
D - Article in proceedings
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Proc. Annu. Meet. Assoc. Comput Linguist.
ISBN
979-889176094-3
ISSN
0736-587X
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Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
11795-11810
Publisher name
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Place of publication
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Event location
Bangkok
Event date
Jan 1, 2025
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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