On the Learnability of Frequent and Infrequent Word Orders: An Artificial Language Learning Study
On the Learnability of Frequent and Infrequent Word Orders: An Artificial Language Learning Study
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论频繁和不频繁词序的可学习性：一项人工语言学习研究
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
A. Yorio
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作者：
Á. Tabullo;Mariana Arismendi;A. Wainselboim;Gerardo Primero;Sergio Vernis;E. Segura;S. Zanutto;A. Yorio
大多数语言都有一个基本的或“规范的”语序，它决定了一个典型陈述句中主语（S）、动词（V）和宾语（O）的相对位置。这六种可能的语序在世界语言中出现的频率并不是均匀分布的。虽然SVO和SOV占世界语言的85%左右，但像VSO（9%）或OSV（0.5%）这样的语序则不太常见或非常罕见。对这种不对称性的一种可能解释是，结构化序列处理的生物和认知限制使某些语序比其他语序更容易被处理。因此，这些词序的高频率与它们较高的可学习性有关。本研究的目的是比较不同的词序组之间的成年受试者的可学性。训练了四种具有不同词序的人工语言：两种频繁（SVO，SOV）和两种不频繁（VSO，OSV）。在测试阶段，受试者被要求区分新的正确句子和句法或语义违规。更高的性能率和更快的反应，观察到更频繁的词序。研究结果支持了这一假设，即更频繁的词序更容易学习。
Most languages have a basic or “canonical” word order, which determines the relative positions of the subject (S), the verb (V), and the object (O) in a typical declarative sentence. The frequency of occurrence of the six possible word orders among world languages is not distributed uniformly. While SVO and SOV represent around 85% of world languages, orders like VSO (9%) or OSV (0.5%) are much less frequent or extremely rare. One possible explanation for this asymmetry is that biological and cognitive constraints for structured sequence processing make some word orders easier to be processed than others. Therefore, the high frequency of these word orders would be related to their higher learnability. The aim of the present study was to compare the learnability of different word orders between groups of adult subjects. Four artificial languages with different word orders were trained: two frequent (SVO, SOV) and two infrequent (VSO, OSV). In a test stage, subjects were asked to discriminate between new correct sentences and syntax or semantic violations. Higher performance rates and faster responses were observed for more frequent word orders. The results support the hypothesis that more frequent word orders are more easily learned.
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
Jaeger, T. Florian
通讯作者：
Jaeger, T. Florian