Categorizing words using 'frequent frames': what cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies.
Categorizing words using 'frequent frames': what cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies.
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00825.x
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发表时间:
2009-04
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Christophe A
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作者:
Chemla E;Mintz TH;Bernal S;Christophe A
described a distributional environment called a frame, defined as the co-occurrence of two context words with one intervening target word. Analyses of English child-directed speech showed that words that fell within any frequently occurring frame consistently belonged to the same grammatical category (e.g., noun, verb, adjective, etc.). In this paper, we first generalize this result to French, whose function word system allows patterns that are potentially detrimental to a frame-based analysis procedure. Second, we show that the discontinuity of the chosen environments –i.e., the fact that target words are framed by the context words– is crucial for the mechanism to be efficient. This property might be relevant for any computational approach to grammatical categorization. Finally, we investigated a recursive application of the procedure and observed that the categorization is paradoxically worse when context elements are categories rather than actual lexical items. Item-specificity is thus also a core computational principle for this type of algorithm. Our analysis, along with results from behavioral studies, provide strong support for frames as a basis for the acquisition of grammatical categories by infants. Discontinuity and item-specificity appeared to be crucial features.
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