Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension: A case of dative construction in Korean

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension: A case of dative construction in Korean

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension: A case of dative construction in Korean

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Functions of Language

ISSN

0929-998X

e-ISSN

1569-9765

Svazek periodika

29

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

274-299

Kód UT WoS článku

000891032800002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85147316728