Database for Experimental Study of Frequency and Structure in Aphasic Language Production

失语症语言产生的频率和结构：数据库和实验研究这项拟议的工作将建立一个英语动词及其出现的“框架”的数据库，并开始研究这些动词的属性是否有助于解释失语症患者（脑损伤后的语言障碍）的一些问题。大多数行为动词出现在主语是施动者的框架中（“She sang”）；对另一些人来说，主体经历了动作（“苹果掉下来了”）；对其他人来说，主语的作用取决于动词是及物动词（“他融化了巧克力”）、不及物动词（“巧克力融化了”）还是被动语态动词（“巧克力融化了”）。为了理解一个句子，听者不仅要理解单词的意思，还要理解主语名词和动词宾语所起的作用。数据库将列出几百个动词的框架以及每个框架在口语和书面语文中出现的频率。失语症患者有理解和/或产生口语和书面语的困难。如果我们了解了这些疾病，我们就能更多地了解大脑是如何储存和处理语言的，我们也可能能够帮助失语症患者。该数据库将用于设计语言正常和受损的人如何理解和创造句子的研究。

Menn, Jurafsky, Ramsberger, Holland98-18827ABSTRACTFrequency and Structure in Aphasic Language Production: Data Base and Experimental Studies The proposed work will create a data base of English verbs and the 'frames' they occur in, and start to study whether the properties of those verbs can help to explain some of the problems of people with aphasia (language impairment after brain damage). Most action verbs occur in frames where subject is the agent ('She sang'); for others, the subject undergoes the action ('The apple fell'); for others, the role of the subject depends on whether the verb is transitive ('He melted the chocolate'), intransitive ('The chocolate melted'), or passive ('The chocolate was melted'). To understand a sentence, a hearer must understand not only the meanings of the words, but also the roles played by the subject noun and any objects of the verb. The data base will list the frames for several hundred verbs and the frequency of each frame in spoken and written text. People with aphasia have difficulty understanding and/or producing spoken and written language. If we understood these disorders, we would know more about how the brain stores and processes language, and we might also be able to help people with aphasia. The data base will be used in designing studies of how people with normal and impaired language understand and create sentences.