A usage-based model

Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing

“…Likewise, the di¤erence in mean residual reading time between the collocating and the complex prefab condition cannot be accounted for by appealing to increased semantic plausibility of the DO-analysis in the latter case. Instead, the results support Langacker's (2000) assumption that ''overlap'' between stretches of the input and complex preassembled categorising structures is a relevant processing factor in its own right.…”

“…are in fact epiphenomenal (in the sense that they are merely implicit in a set of stored exemplars, cf. Langacker 2000). Prefabricated chunks of various grain sizes thus play an important role in the model, and it seems reasonable to hypothesise from here that they are also relevant for processing.…”

“…Tanenhaus and Trueswell 1995 for an overview). Most consonant with usage-based approaches to language are so-called constraint-based models of the ambiguity resolution process which argue for an immediate interaction and rapid integration of di¤erent information sources: in contrast to syntax-centered two-stage models, these approaches are non-modular and accord central importance to matters of usage frequency and psychological entrenchment, both assumptions that are well in keeping with central tenets of cognitively oriented versions of Construction Grammar (Bybee 2006;Goldberg 2006;Langacker 2000).…”

Grammaire et dictionnaire : le parti pris des mots

“…Le TAL n'a plus pour but l'écriture de règles mais il s'attache au traitement de segments de discours selon des règles contextuelles ou statistiques. La réévaluation de l'unité et du contexte qui en découle se retrouve, selon un parallélisme qui est sans doute loin d'être fortuit, dans des modèles linguistiques basées sur l'usage, comme celui développé par Langacker (1988Langacker ( , 1990Langacker ( , 2000, Kemmer et Israël (1994), . Contrairement à la division saussurienne entre langue (abstraite) et parole (concrète par ses attestations), dans laquelle les énoncés sont l'actualisation de règles qui les précèdent, la langue, dans ces modèles, est constamment (re)construite dans l'immanence des énoncés et de leur production.…”

Gradability and Mimetic Verbs in Japanese: A Frame-Semantic Account

“…The frame-semantic approach that we employ in this study enables us to delve into the specifics of the meanings of mimetic verbs, particularly those that would be jumbled up as "MANNER" in the event-structural representations in a traditional lexical-semantic approach to argument realization (Pinker 1989;Levin 1993;Levin andRappaport Hovav 1995, see Kageyama 2007 for such an approach to mimetic verbs). In this regard, the present study on scale semantics shares the basic tenet with frame-semantically (or more broadly, "encyclopedically") informed Construction Grammar, which values the significance of subclass-level generalizations in the discussion of the syntaxsemantics interface (Langacker 1988;Fillmore andAtkins 1992, 1994;Taylor 1996;Croft 2001Croft , 2003Croft , 2009Croft , 2012Boas 2003;Iwata 2008).…”