Construction Grammar

Goldberg, Adele Ε.

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“…In construction grammar, constructions are stored pairs of form and meaning, or form and function, in which at least some aspect of the construction's function is not predictable from its component parts. Any difference in form therefore implies a difference in meaning or function (Goldberg, 2002). This assertion provides some additional testable predictions about the factors that may influence verbal cluster order variation.…”

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“…In a psycholinguistic study, Hartsuiker and Westenberg (2000) showed that verbal cluster orders can undergo structural priming, providing evidence that both verbal cluster orders can be considered to be distinct constructions. Under this assumption, variation between the orders may be motivated by semantic or functional differences, following Goldberg (2002).…”

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Verbal cluster order and processing complexity

2017

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We examine a case of word order variation where speakers choose between two near-synonymous constructions partly on the basis of the processing complexity of the construction and its context. When producing two-verb clusters in Dutch, a speaker can choose between two word orders. Previous corpus studies have shown that a wide range of factors are associated with this word order variation. We conducted a large-scale corpus study in order to discover what these factors have in common. The underlying generalization appears to be processing complexity: we show that a variety of factors that are related to verbal cluster word order, can also be related to the processing complexity of the cluster's context. This implies that one of the word orders might be easier to process d when processing load is high, speakers will go for the easier option. Therefore, we also investigate which of the two word orders might be easier to process. By testing for associations with factors indicating a higher or lower processing complexity of the verb and its context, we find evidence for the hypothesis that the word order where the main verb comes last is easier to process.

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Verbal cluster order and processing complexity

2017

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“…This follows from an Optimality Theory account, where production proceeds partly independently from comprehension (Smolensky, 1996;Hendriks, 2014Hendriks, , 2016. In this account, the pairing of form with meaning that characterizes linguistic constructions (e.g., Goldberg, 2006) gradually emerges as the by-product of acquiring the constraint ranking of the language. Only when the mapping from an input meaning to the optimal form in production and the mapping from an input form to the optimal meaning in comprehension result in the same form-meaning pairing, as happens under the adult ranking of the constraint but not yet young children's (e.g., Hendriks, 2016), is the result a consistent form-meaning mapping and hence a construction.…”

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Production Before Comprehension in the Emergence of Transitive Constructions in Dutch Child Language

Cannizzaro

Hendriks

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…For example, to distinguish acceptable caused-motion constructions (e.g., "the professor talked us into a stupor") from inacceptable ones (e.g., "water talked it into red"), both syntactic and semantic information need to be considered(Goldberg, 1995).…”

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Masking as an Efficient Alternative to Finetuning for Pretrained Language Models

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Lin²,

Mi³

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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

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We present an efficient method of utilizing pretrained language models, where we learn selective binary masks for pretrained weights in lieu of modifying them through finetuning. Extensive evaluations of masking BERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT on eleven diverse NLP tasks show that our masking scheme yields performance comparable to finetuning, yet has a much smaller memory footprint when several tasks need to be inferred. Intrinsic evaluations show that representations computed by our binary masked language models encode information necessary for solving downstream tasks. Analyzing the loss landscape, we show that masking and finetuning produce models that reside in minima that can be connected by a line segment with nearly constant test accuracy. This confirms that masking can be utilized as an efficient alternative to finetuning.

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Construction Grammar

Abstract: Construction Grammar is a linguistic theory concerned with the nature of speakers' knowledge of language. Like traditional grammars, Construction Grammar takes the basic units of language to be form–meaning pairings, or constructions .

Cited by 8 publications

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Verbal cluster order and processing complexity

Verbal cluster order and processing complexity

Production Before Comprehension in the Emergence of Transitive Constructions in Dutch Child Language

Masking as an Efficient Alternative to Finetuning for Pretrained Language Models

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