"Frequent Frames" in German Child-Directed Speech: A Limited Cue to Grammatical Categories
"Frequent Frames" in German Child-Directed Speech: A Limited Cue to Grammatical Categories
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德国儿童定向言语中的“频繁框架”：语法类别的有限提示
DOI：
10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01187.x
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
M. Tomasello
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作者：
B. Stumper;Colin Bannard;E. Lieven;M. Tomasello
Mintz（2003）发现，在英语儿童言语中，通过连接前一个（A）和后一个（B）词（A_x_B）形成的频繁出现的框架可以准确地预测插入词（x）的句法类别。这已经成功地扩展到法语（Chemla，Mintz，Bernal和Christophe，2009）。在本文中，我们表明，作为荷兰语（Erkelens，2009），在德语中的频繁框架不能够这样准确的词汇分类。这可以用德语的特点来解释，包括与英语或法语相比，德语的词序限制较少，以及在德语口语中经常使用某些形式作为限定词和代词。最后，我们探讨了帧的准确性和它们的潜在效用之间的关系，并发现即使是那些帧显示基于标记的高准确性是有限的价值，因为它们实际上是固定的短语很少或没有变化的插槽位置。
Mintz (2003) found that in English child-directed speech, frequently occurring frames formed by linking the preceding (A) and succeeding (B) word (A_x_B) could accurately predict the syntactic category of the intervening word (x). This has been successfully extended to French (Chemla, Mintz, Bernal, & Christophe, 2009). In this paper, we show that, as for Dutch (Erkelens, 2009), frequent frames in German do not enable such accurate lexical categorization. This can be explained by the characteristics of German including a less restricted word order compared to English or French and the frequent use of some forms as both determiner and pronoun in colloquial German. Finally, we explore the relationship between the accuracy of frames and their potential utility and find that even some of those frames showing high token-based accuracy are of limited value because they are in fact set phrases with little or no variability in the slot position.