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

失语症语言产生中的频率和结构：数据库和实验研究拟议中的工作将建立一个英语动词和它们所在的框架的数据库，并开始研究这些动词的特性是否可以帮助解释失语症患者的一些问题(脑损伤后的语言障碍)。大多数动作动词出现在主语是施事的框架中(‘She Sang’)；对于其他动词，主语是动作(‘the Apple Fall’)；对于其他动词，主语的作用取决于动词是及物性的(‘他融化了巧克力’)、不及物的(‘融化的巧克力’)还是被动的(‘巧克力融化了’)。要理解一个句子，听话者不仅要理解单词的意义，而且要理解主语名词和动词的任何宾语所起的作用。该数据库将列出数百个动词的框架，以及每个框架在口语和书面文本中的频率。失语症患者在理解和/或表达口语和书面语方面有困难。如果我们了解这些障碍，我们就会更多地了解大脑是如何存储和处理语言的，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语言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.