Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:42:30 BST CiteULike: briordan's corpus-linguistics http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/tag/corpus-linguistics CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2906177 <i>Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (in press)</i> Embodied relations are encoded by language Max Louwerse Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (in press) 2008-06-18T20:43:24-00:00 Psychonomic Bulletin and Review corpus-linguistics distributional-similarity models situated-simulation http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2897159 <i>(2008)</i> The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography Sue Atkins Michael Rundell (2008) 2008-06-15T22:30:59-00:00 2008 Oxford University Press computational-lexical-semantics corpus-linguistics handbook lexical-resources http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2871130 <i>International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 2. (2008), pp. 139-168.</i> Type noun uses in the English NP: A case of right to left layering Kristin Davidse Lieselotte Brems Liesbeth De Smedt International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 2. (2008), pp. 139-168. 2008-06-07T11:25:30-00:00 2008 International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13 2 139 168 corpus-linguistics theres http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2845126 <i>Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 10. (October 2004), pp. 451-456.</i><br /><br />Recent demonstrations of statistical learning in infants have reinvigorated the innateness versus learning debate in language acquisition. This article addresses these issues from both computational and developmental perspectives. First, I argue that statistical learning using transitional probabilities cannot reliably segment words when scaled to a realistic setting (e.g. child-directed English). To be successful, it must be constrained by knowledge of phonological structure. Then, turning to the bona fide theory of innateness - the Principles and Parameters framework - I argue that a full explanation of children's grammar development must abandon the domain-specific learning model of triggering, in favor of probabilistic learning mechanisms that might be domain-general but nevertheless operate in the domain-specific space of syntactic parameters. Universal Grammar, statistics or both? Charles Yang doi:10.1016/j.tics.2004.08.006 Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 10. (October 2004), pp. 451-456. 2008-05-29T16:20:41-00:00 2004 Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 10 451 456 corpus-linguistics statistical-learning syntactic-acquisition http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2833598 <i>Int J Lexicography, Vol. 21, No. 2. (1 June 2008), pp. 193-195.</i><br /><br />10.1093/ijl/ecn010 Thierry Fontenelle (ed.). Practical Lexicography: A Reader (Oxford Linguistics). Reinhard Hartmann doi:10.1093/ijl/ecn010 Int J Lexicography, Vol. 21, No. 2. (1 June 2008), pp. 193-195. 2008-05-26T11:32:22-00:00 2008 Int J Lexicography 21 2 193 195 corpus-linguistics general-linguistics http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2829762 <i>(2008)</i> Corpora in Language Acquisition (2008) 2008-05-25T11:39:59-00:00 2008 cds computational-linguistics corpus-linguistics general-language-acquisition multimodal-processing syntactic-acquisition http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2827143 <i>Lit Linguist Computing, Vol. 23, No. 2. (1 June 2008), pp. 163-180.</i><br /><br />Today's corpus tools offer the user a wide range of features that greatly facilitate the linguistic analysis of large amounts of authentic language data (e.g. frequency distributions, collocations, keywords, etc.). However, these tools typically fail to address the fundamental need of the linguist to add interpretive information to a concordance or query result, by coding individual concordance lines for structural, functional, discoursal, and other features in a flexible way. The ability to add such qualitative data is indispensable to a fuller understanding of the phenomenon under investigation as it allows the linguist to produce more rigorous descriptions--and theories--about language in use. Our article has two aims: first, to assess the merits and drawbacks of existing solutions, by surveying what can be achieved using state-of-the-art corpus tools and generic database software; second, we draw up a set of desiderata and recommendations for the incorporation of flexible encoding features into future corpus tools. We describe an initial step in this direction, with a recent enhancement to the BNCweb corpus analysis software. More generally, we hope our suggestions will lead to linguists and software developers working together more closely to ensure that the needs of the former are provided for by the available technology. 10.1093/llc/fqn004 Corpus Tools and Methods, Today and Tomorrow: Incorporating Linguists' Manual Annotations Nicholas Smith Sebastian Hoffmann Paul Rayson doi:10.1093/llc/fqn004 Lit Linguist Computing, Vol. 23, No. 2. (1 June 2008), pp. 163-180. 2008-05-23T23:09:03-00:00 2008 Lit Linguist Computing 23 2 163 180 corpus-linguistics http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2639770 <i>Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2. (December 2007), pp. 233-279.</i> There's two ways to say it: Modeling nonprestige there's Brian Riordan Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2. (December 2007), pp. 233-279. 2008-04-08T02:10:25-00:00 2007 Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 3 2 233 279 corpus-linguistics theres http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2616552 <i>(2008)</i> Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction Stephan Gries (2008) 2008-03-31T15:20:31-00:00 2008 Routledge corpus-linguistics textbook http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2428190 <i>Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2. (2007), pp. 131-159.</i> Every method counts: Combining corpus-based and experimental evidence in the study of synonymy Antti Arppe Juhani Järvikivi Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2. (2007), pp. 131-159. 2008-02-26T02:41:47-00:00 2007 Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory 3 2 131 159 corpus-linguistics semantic-organization http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2374665 <i>(2008)</i> Practical Lexicography: A Reader Thierry Fontenelle (2008) 2008-02-14T15:32:07-00:00 2008 Oxford University Press computational-linguistics corpus-linguistics distributional-similarity handbook http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/1940403 <i>Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 39, No. 4. (November 2007), pp. 1025-1028.</i> Spoken word frequency counts based on 1.6 million words in American English Pastizzo J Matthew Carbone F Robert Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 39, No. 4. (November 2007), pp. 1025-1028. 2007-11-20T00:29:07-00:00 2007 Behavior Research Methods 1554-351X 39 4 1025 1028 Psychonomic Society Publications corpus-linguistics general-psycholinguistics methods http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2162400 <i>Lingua, Vol. 118, No. 2. (February 2008), pp. 245-259.</i><br /><br />Bresnan et al. (2007) show that a statistical model can predict United States (US) English speakers' syntactic choices with `give'-type verbs extremely accurately. They argue that these results are consistent with probabilistic models of grammar, which assume that grammar is quantitive, and learned from exposure to other speakers. Such a model would also predict syntactic differences across time and space which are reflected not only in the use of clear dialectal features or clear-cut changes in progress, but also in subtle factors such as the relative importance of conditioning factors, and changes over time in speakers' preferences between equally well-formed variants. This paper investigates these predictions by comparing the grammar of phrases involving `give' in New Zealand (NZ) and US English. We find that the grammar developed by Bresnan et al. for US English generalizes remarkably well to NZ English. NZ English is, however, subtly different, in that NZ English speakers appear to be more sensitive to the role of animacy. Further, we investigate changes over time in NZ English and find that the overall behavior of `give' phrases has subtly shifted. We argue that these subtle differences in space and time provide support for the gradient nature of grammar, and are consistent with usage-based, probabilistic syntactic models. Gradient grammar: An effect of animacy on the syntax of give in New Zealand and American English Joan Bresnan Jennifer Hay doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.007 Lingua, Vol. 118, No. 2. (February 2008), pp. 245-259. 2007-12-23T19:30:18-00:00 2008 Lingua 118 2 245 259 corpus-linguistics syntactic-variation http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/1311102 <i>Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 7. (July 2006), pp. 335-344.</i><br /><br />Probabilistic methods are providing new explanatory approaches to fundamental cognitive science questions of how humans structure, process and acquire language. This review examines probabilistic models defined over traditional symbolic structures. Language comprehension and production involve probabilistic inference in such models; and acquisition involves choosing the best model, given innate constraints and linguistic and other input. Probabilistic models can account for the learning and processing of language, while maintaining the sophistication of symbolic models. A recent burgeoning of theoretical developments and online corpus creation has enabled large models to be tested, revealing probabilistic constraints in processing, undermining acquisition arguments based on a perceived poverty of the stimulus, and suggesting fruitful links with probabilistic theories of categorization and ambiguity resolution in perception. Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition Nick Chater Christopher Manning doi:10.1016/j.tics.2006.05.006 Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 7. (July 2006), pp. 335-344. 2007-05-20T11:59:02-00:00 2006 Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10 7 335 344 computational-linguistics corpus-linguistics models http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2139139 <i>Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 55, No. 4. (December 2007), pp. 259-305.</i><br /><br />Several phonological and prosodic properties of words have been shown to relate to differences between grammatical categories. Distributional information about grammatical categories is also a rich source in the child's language environment. In this paper we hypothesise that such cues operate in tandem for developing the child's knowledge about grammatical categories. We term this the Phonological-Distributional Coherence Hypothesis (PDCH). We tested the PDCH by analysing phonological and distributional information in distinguishing open from closed class words and nouns from verbs in four languages: English, Dutch, French, and Japanese. We found an interaction between phonological and distributional cues for all four languages indicating that when distributional cues were less reliable, phonological cues were stronger. This provides converging evidence that language is structured such that language learning benefits from the integration of information about category from contextual and sound-based sources, and that the child's language environment is less impoverished than we might suspect. The phonological-distributional coherence hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition Padraic Monaghan Morten Christiansen Nick Chater doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.12.001 Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 55, No. 4. (December 2007), pp. 259-305. 2007-12-18T02:20:59-00:00 2007 Cognitive Psychology 55 4 259 305 cds corpus-linguistics statistical-learning word-learning http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2132819 <i>Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Vol. 19, No. 5. (1990), pp. 317-330.</i><br /><br />The 1-million-word Brown corpus was searched for co-occurrences of semantically related pairs of concrete nouns appearing within an arbitrary window of 250 characters. Related pairs of nouns (OCEAN-WATER) co-occur significantly more often than matched, unrelated pairs (OCEAN-HAND), and this difference remained significant within blocks of text up to 1000 characters in length. Frequency of co-occurrence, corrected for chance, is significantly correlated with association strength. Lexical distance between co-occurring members of a given pair is inversely correlated with association strength. Significantly more co-occurrences were found, per unit text, in the fictional sections of the corpus. Lexical co-occurrence and association strength Donald Spence Kimberly Owens doi:10.1007/BF01074363 Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Vol. 19, No. 5. (1990), pp. 317-330. 2007-12-16T16:48:29-00:00 1990 Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 19 5 317 330 corpus-linguistics distributional-similarity semantic-measures word-association http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2115961 <i>pp. 69-94.</i> Predicting the dative alternation Joan Bresnan Anna Cueni Tatiana Nikitina Harald Baayen pp. 69-94. 2007-12-14T16:17:56-00:00 69 94 Royal Netherlands Academy of Science corpus-linguistics syntactic-priming syntactic-variation theres http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/1871517 <i>International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 12, No. 3. (2007), pp. 415-444.</i> Lexical repulsion between sense-related pairs Antoinette Renouf Jayeeta Banerjee International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 12, No. 3. (2007), pp. 415-444. 2007-11-06T03:25:04-00:00 2007 International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12 3 415 444 corpus-linguistics http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/1820959 <i>(2007)</i> Building and Exploring Web Corpora (2007) 2007-10-25T13:01:33-00:00 2007 Presses universitaires de Louvain corpus-linguistics