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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 316 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 226x147x20 mm, kaal: 476 g
  • Sari: Language Learning Monograph
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  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1119296528
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Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O'Donnell present a view of language as a complex adaptive system that is learned through usage. In a series of research studies, they analyze Verb-Argument Constructions (VACs) in first and second language learning, processing, and use. Drawing on diverse epistemological and methodological perspectives, they show how language emerges out of multiple experiences of meaning-making. In the development of both mother tongue and additional languages, each usage experience affects construction knowledge following general principles of learning relating to frequency, contingency, and semantic prototypicality. The implications of this work will be of value to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplinary interests in language and learning.

"This is an impressive volume that will inspire researchers for generations to come. Focusing on the construction and acquisition of language, it combines a comprehensive synthesis of theory with a detailed account of extensive empirical work."
—Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham

"This book is a phenomenal synthesis of a formidable research program. In a feast of corpus, psycholinguistic, acquisitional, and simulation evidence, the authors’ bold theoretical insights advance knowledge about human language to unprecedented levels."
—Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University

"The authors present a superb synthesis of approaches to verb-argument constructions and convincingly demonstrate the close links between lexical patterning and constructional meaning. An absolute must-read for anyone interested in usage-based approaches to language learning."
—Ewa Dabrowska, University of Northumbria at Newcastle

"This book represents an outstanding achievement. The authors illustrate why the most exciting work in the language sciences today is conducted across disciplinary boundaries. Working at the intersection of experimental, computational, and corpus-based approaches, their research inspires us to look beyond our own disciplines to observe language data from all angles."
—Patrick Rebuschat, Lancaster University

Arvustused

A large number of positive and so-called extreme adjectives do apply to the volumeit is phenomenal, superb, comprehensive, outstanding, inspiring and forward-looking. This volume is a must-read (and probably re-read too) for all researchers interested in first and second language acquisition and processing. Fanny Meunier, ICAME Journal, 2017

As it is, the book certainly contains the most thorough treatment of the use, acquisition, and processing of VACs to date, and one of the best examples of how close collaboration between researchers from different fields can help push the barriers of knowledge and provide new insights that better reflect the multifaceted nature of language as a complex adaptive system. Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Applied Linguistics, 2017

The book will definitively be an excellent resource for L1 and L2 researchers and students interested in language and language acquisition at large, and in usage-based approaches to language learning in particular. Teresa Cadierno, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2017

Series Editor's Foreword 15(4)
Acknowledgements 19(4)
Chapter 1 Constructions and Usage-based Approaches to Language Acquisition 23(22)
1.1 Introduction
23(3)
1.2 Construction Grammar
26(2)
1.3 Basic-Level Constructions and Embodiment
28(1)
1.4 Formulaic Language and Corpus Approaches
29(1)
1.5 Inseparability of Lexis, Grammar, and Semantics
30(2)
1.6 Verb-Argument Constructions (VACs)
32(1)
1.7 Exemplar-based Abstraction
33(2)
1.8 Construction Processing is Probabilistic
35(2)
1.9 Construction Processing is Rational
37(2)
1.10 VAC Structural Priming
39(2)
1.11 VAC Priming in Dialogic Alignment
41(1)
1.12 Guide to the Volume
42(3)
Chapter 2 Determinants of Construction Learning 45(24)
2.1 Introduction
45(1)
2.2 Frequency Effects
45(14)
2.2.1 Item Learning
46(1)
2.2.2 Sequence Learning and Chunking
47(10)
2.2.2.1 Letter Chunks
48(2)
2.2.2.2 Word Chunks
50(1)
2.2.2.3 Grammar Chunks
51(1)
2.2.2.4 Type and Token Frequency
52(1)
2.2.2.5 Collocation Chunks
53(1)
2.2.2.6 Phrasal Chunks
54(1)
2.2.2.7 Chunking and Language Processing
55(2)
2.2.3 Zipfian Frequency Distributions
57(2)
2.3 Categorization, Meaning, and Prototypes
59(2)
2.4 Contingency: Associations of Form and Function
61(3)
2.5 Salience and Perception of Linguistic Forms
64(1)
2.6 Implicit and Explicit Learning
64(3)
2.7 The Interconnectedness of Learning Determinants
67(2)
Chapter 3 VACs in Usage 69(30)
3.1 Introduction
69(2)
3.2 Methods
71(17)
3.2.1 Type-Token Distributions
71(8)
3.2.1.1 Defining Search Graphs from COBUILD Descriptions
71(3)
3.2.1.2 Checking Precision and Recall of VAC Searches
74(1)
3.2.1.3 Refining the Search Graphs
75(1)
3.2.1.4 Balancing Precision and Recall
76(3)
3.2.2 Contingency
79(1)
3.2.2.1 Faithfulness
79(1)
3.2.2.2 Delta P (ΔP)
80(1)
3.2.3 Semantic Analyses
80(2)
3.2.4 Building Semantic Networks
82(6)
3.2.4.1 Prototypicality
86(1)
3.2.4.2 Semantic Coherence
86(1)
3.2.4.3 Polysemy and Community Detection
87(1)
3.3 Findings
88(8)
3.3.1 Type-Token Distributions
88(3)
3.3.2 Contingency
91(1)
3.3.3 Semantic Analyses
92(4)
3.4 Summary Conclusions
96(3)
Chapter 4 VACS in L1 Knowledge and Processing 99(24)
4.1 Introduction
99(2)
4.1.1 Frequency
100(1)
4.1.2 Contingency
100(1)
4.1.3 Semantic Prototypicality of Constructions
101(1)
4.2 Experiment 1
101(9)
4.2.1 Participants
101(1)
4.2.2 Method
102(1)
4.2.3 Results
102(7)
4.2.3.1 Effects of Frequency
103(3)
4.2.3.2 Effects of Contingency
106(1)
4.2.3.3 Effects of Semantic Prototypicality
106(1)
4.2.3.4 Overall Frequency Analysis
106(2)
4.2.3.5 Combined Analyses
108(1)
4.2.4 Interim Summary Discussion
109(1)
4.3 Experiment 2
110(4)
4.3.1 Participants
110(1)
4.3.2 Method
111(1)
4.3.3 Results
111(3)
4.3.3.1 Effects of Frequency
113(1)
4.3.3.2 Effects of Contingency
113(1)
4.3.3.3 Effects of Semantic Prototypicality
113(1)
4.3.3.4 Overall Frequency Analysis
113(1)
4.3.3.5 Combined Analyses
113(1)
4.4 Discussion of Findings
114(6)
4.4.1 Effects on Processing
114(2)
4.4.2 Prototypicality and Spreading Activation
116(1)
4.4.3 Analyzing Causal Variables and their Interactions
117(1)
4.4.4 Implications for the Representation or Re-presenting of VACs
118(1)
4.4.5 Learning VACs: Usage-based and Implicit
119(1)
4.5 Summary Conclusions
120(3)
Chapter 5 VACs in L2 Knowledge and Processing 123(32)
5.1 Introduction
123(1)
5.2 Language Typology and Verb Semantics
124(2)
5.3 Data Collection
126(1)
5.4 Methods of Analysis
127(3)
5.4.1 Analysis 1: Comparing VAC Usage and Learner VAC Knowledge
128(1)
5.4.2 Analysis 2: Comparing Native Speaker and Learner VAC Knowledge
129(1)
5.5 Results from Analysis 1
130(5)
5.5.1 Effects of Frequency
130(2)
5.5.2 Effects of Contingency
132(2)
5.5.3 Effects of Semantic Prototypicality
134(1)
5.5.4 Combined Effects
134(1)
5.6 Results from Analysis 2
135(12)
5.6.1 Overview of VACs
137(5)
5.6.2 Zooming in on 'V against n'
142(1)
5.6.3 Zooming in on 'V in n'
143(2)
5.6.4 Zooming in on 'V over n'
145(2)
5.7 Discussion of Findings
147(4)
5.8 Summary Conclusions
151(4)
Chapter 6 Online Processing of VACs 155(32)
6.1 Introduction
155(2)
6.2 Experiment 1: VAC Recognition Threshold
157(7)
6.2.1 Participants
158(1)
6.2.2 Method
158(2)
6.2.2.1 Stimulus Materials
158(1)
6.2.2.2 Procedure
159(1)
6.2.3 Results
160(4)
6.2.3.1 Exposure Time
160(1)
6.2.3.2 Errors
161(3)
6.2.4 Experiment Discussion
164(1)
6.3 Experiment 2: Naming Latency
164(3)
6.3.1 Participants
165(1)
6.3.2 Method
165(1)
6.3.2.1 Stimulus Materials
165(1)
6.3.2.2 Procedure
165(1)
6.3.3 Results
166(1)
6.3.4 Experiment Discussion
167(1)
6.4 Experiment 3: Lexical Decision
167(3)
6.4.1 Participants
168(1)
6.4.2 Method
169(1)
6.4.2.1 Stimulus Materials
169(1)
6.4.2.2 Procedure
169(1)
6.4.3 Results
169(1)
6.4.3.1 Lexical Decision RT
169(1)
6.4.3.2 Lexical Decision Judgments
170(1)
6.4.4 Experiment Discussion
170(1)
6.5 Experiment 4: Lexical Decision of Interposed Constituents
170(3)
6.5.1 Participants
171(1)
6.5.2 Method
171(1)
6.5.2.1 Stimulus Materials
171(1)
6.5.2.2 Procedure
172(1)
6.5.3 Results
172(1)
6.5.3.1 Lexical Decision RT
172(1)
6.5.3.2 Lexical Decision Judgments
173(1)
6.5.4 Experiment Discussion
173(1)
6.6 Experiment 5: Judging the Meaningfulness of VACs
173(3)
6.6.1 Participants
174(1)
6.6.2 Method
174(1)
6.6.2.1 Stimulus Materials
174(1)
6.6.2.2 Procedure
174(1)
6.6.3 Results
174(1)
6.6.3.1 Meaning Judgment RTs
175(1)
6.6.3.2 Meaning Judgments
175(1)
6.6.4 Experiment Discussion
175(1)
6.7 General Discussion
176(7)
6.7.1 Recognition Threshold
176(2)
6.7.2 VAC Preposition Naming
178(1)
6.7.3 Lexical Decision
178(2)
6.7.4 Assessing Meaning
180(1)
6.7.5 Conscious and Unconscious Meaning
181(1)
6.7.6 Limitations
182(1)
6.8 Summary Conclusions
183(4)
Chapter 7 VACs in Parent and Child Language (Written With David C. Ogden) 187(30)
7.1 Introduction
187(3)
7.2 Data and Methods
190(7)
7.2.1 The Corpora
190(1)
7.2.2 Search Criteria
191(1)
7.2.3 Precision and Recall
192(1)
7.2.4 Measuring Distribution of Verbs in VACs
193(1)
7.2.5 Measuring VAC Selectivity
193(2)
7.2.6 Measuring VAC-Verb Contingency
195(1)
7.2.7 Measuring Semantic Centrality
195(1)
7.2.8 Evaluating the Relationship Between Children's and Parents' Use of VACs
196(1)
7.3 Results
197(12)
7.3.1 Zipfian Distribution
197(5)
7.3.2 Contingency
202(1)
7.3.3 Semantic Prototypicality
203(1)
7.3.4 The Relationships between Frequency, Contingency, and Semantic Prototypicality
203(1)
7.3.5 Construction Growth
204(1)
7.3.6 The Relationship Between Children's Acquisition and Parents' Use
205(4)
7.4 Discussion
209(5)
7.4.1 The Synergy of Syntax, Lexis, and Semantics
209(2)
7.4.2 The Engines of Acquisition: Frequency, Contingency, and Semantics
211(1)
7.4.3 Zipf, Mandelbrot, and Some Implications for Basic-Categories of VACs
212(1)
7.4.4 The Naming of Things and the Naming of Doing
213(1)
7.5 Summary Conclusions
214(3)
Chapter 8 VACs in L2 Acquisition 217(24)
8.1 Introduction
217(3)
8.2 Method
220(4)
8.2.1 Longitudinal Corpus Analyses
220(1)
8.2.2 Participants
220(1)
8.2.3 Procedure
220(1)
8.2.4 Analysis of Contingency
221(1)
8.2.5 Analysis of Prototypicality
222(2)
8.3 Results: VACs in ESL
224(11)
8.3.1 The Verb Slot
224(7)
8.3.1.1 Zipfian Distribution
224(1)
8.3.1.2 The Relationship between Frequency and Acquisition
225(2)
8.3.1.3 The Relationship between Semantic Prototypicality and Acquisition
227(1)
8.3.1.4 The Relationship between Contingency and Acquisition
228(3)
8.3.2 The Nonverb Slots
231(4)
8.3.2.1 Zipfian Distribution
231(1)
8.3.2.2 The Relationship between Frequency and Acquisition
231(2)
8.3.2.3 The Relationship between Semantic Prototypicality and Acquisition
233(1)
8.3.2.4 The Relationship between Contingency and Acquisition
234(1)
8.4 Summary Conclusions
235(6)
8.4.1 Verbs in VACS
235(1)
8.4.2 Other Slots in the VAC
235(1)
8.4.3 Learning through Comprehension
236(5)
Chapter 9 Computational Models of Language Usage, Acquisition, and Transmission 241(38)
9.1 Introduction
241(1)
9.2 Connectionist Simulations of Acquisition
242(3)
9.2.1 SRN Analyses of Language Form
243(1)
9.2.2 SRN Analyses of Syntactic Form
244(1)
9.2.3 SRN Analyses of Semantics
245(1)
9.3 Modelling VAC Acquisition
245(13)
9.3.1 Architecture 1
245(11)
9.3.1.1 Results
250(6)
9.3.2 Architecture 2 (No Semantics)
256(1)
9.3.3 Conclusions
257(1)
9.4 Agent-based Simulations of The Ecology of Usage
258(6)
9.4.1 Zipf on the Ecology of Language
259(3)
9.4.2 Agent-based Models of Language as a CAS
262(2)
9.5 Agent-based Simulations of VAC Usage and Intergenerational Transmission (Written With Krishna Bathina)
264(13)
9.5.1 Conceptual Representation
264(2)
9.5.2 Interaction
266(2)
9.5.2.1 Adult Naming Strategies
266(1)
9.5.2.2 Child Comprehension
267(1)
9.5.2.3 Child Language Learning
267(1)
9.5.3 Speakers, Listeners, and Generations of Interaction
268(1)
9.5.4 Model Summary
268(1)
9.5.5 Results
269(5)
9.5.5.1 Conceptual Transmission
269(3)
9.5.5.2 Communicative Efficacy
272(1)
9.5.5.3 Type-Token Frequency Distributions
272(2)
9.5.6 Conclusions
274(3)
9.6 Summary Conclusions
277(2)
Chapter 10 VAC Usage, Processing, Acquisition, and Transmission 279(34)
10.1 Introduction
279(1)
10.2 Usage
279(5)
10.2.1 Findings and Some Implications
279(1)
10.2.2 Limitations and Future Research Priorities
280(4)
10.2.2.1 VAC Sampling and Description
280(1)
10.2.2.2 Other Corpora
281(1)
10.2.2.3 Other VACs
282(1)
10.2.2.4 Measuring Meaning
282(2)
10.3 Processing
284(8)
10.3.1 Findings and Some Implications
284(2)
10.3.1.1 Conscious L1 Processing
284(1)
10.3.1.2 Conscious L2 Processing
285(1)
10.3.1.3 Online L1 Processing
285(1)
10.3.2 Limitations and Future Research Priorities
286(6)
10.3.2.1 Conscious L1 Processing
286(2)
10.3.2.2 Conscious L2 Processing
288(2)
10.3.2.3 Online L1 Processing
290(2)
10.4 Acquisition
292(6)
10.4.1 Findings and Some Implications
292(3)
10.4.1.1 L1 Acquisition
292(2)
10.4.1.2 L2 Acquisition
294(1)
10.4.2 Limitations and Future Research Priorities
295(3)
10.4.2.1 L1 Acquisition
295(2)
10.4.2.2 L2 Acquisition
297(1)
10.5 Language Learning and Instruction
298(5)
10.5.1 Pedagogical Implications
298(3)
10.5.2 Future Pedagogical Research Priorities
301(2)
10.6 Modeling Acquisition
303(3)
10.6.1 Findings and Some Implications
303(2)
10.6.1.1 Computational Models of Acquisition
303(1)
10.6.1.2 Agent-based Models of Transmission
304(1)
10.6.2 Limitations and Future Research Priorities
305(1)
10.6.2.1 Computational Models of Acquisition
305(1)
10.6.2.2 Agent-based Models of Transmission
305(1)
10.7 Social Usage
306(1)
10.8 Issues of Causality
307(3)
10.9 Emergentism and LaCAS
310(3)
References 313(40)
Index 353
Nick C. Ellis is Professor of Psychology, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist in the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan. His research interests include language acquisition, cognition, emergentism, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, applied linguistics, and psycholinguistics He serves a General Editor of Language Learning.

Ute Römer is an Assistant professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language at Georgia State University. Her research interests include discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, syntax, corpus linguistics, and construction grammar, among others. She serves on a range of editorial and advisory boards of professional journals and organizations, and is co-editor of the Studies in Corpus Linguistics book series.

Matthew Brook O'Donnell is a Research Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include social psychology, communication and media, quantitative social research, pragmatics, syntax, and morphology.