Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension: A case of dative construction in Korean
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/fol.22028.kim" target="_blank" >https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/fol.22028.kim</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.22028.kim" target="_blank" >10.1075/fol.22028.kim</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension: A case of dative construction in Korean
Original language description
Two theoretical viewpoints provide different explanations about how people extract statistical regularities from input to assess the felicity of verb usage in a sentence. The lexical approach emphasizes the role of verb frequency in determining a verb’s distributional bias within a sentence, whereas the entrenchment hypothesis highlights the conjoined roles of the frequency information from both a verb and an argument structure construction. The present study tests these accounts by investigating Korean speakers’ interpretation of two dative patterns in Korean (Dative–Accusative and Accusative–Accusative). Through the analysis of a large-scale corpus, we calculated the frequency of each dative pattern as well as the frequency of dative verbs occurring therein. Using this information, we conducted an acceptability judgment task with Korean speakers by manipulating the dative type and the verb frequency. The results showed that the speakers’ acceptability rating behavior was affected by the interaction between the verb and construction frequency such that highly entrenched verb–construction combinations were evaluated to be more acceptable. Our finding supports the entrenchment hypothesis that emphasizes the conjoined roles of usage frequency of verbs and constructions in sentence comprehension.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Functions of Language
ISSN
0929-998X
e-ISSN
1569-9765
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
274-299
UT code for WoS article
000891032800002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85147316728