Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation
- Author
- Timothy Colleman (UGent) and Sarah Bernolet (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- In semantic studies of argument structure alternations as well as in recent psycholinguistic research on syntactic priming, the concept of alternation bias, i.e. the lexical preferences of individual verbs for one of two (or more) alternating constructions, plays a crucial role. This paper offers a detailed comparison of the results from Colleman’s (2009) corpus-based investigation of the dative alternation in Dutch with the findings from a series of picture description experiments reported in Bernolet (2008). On the one hand, this comparison reveals a striking contrast between both datasets in terms of the overall proportions of double object (DO) versus prepositional dative (PD) instances. On the other hand, it will be shown that the alternation biases of individual dative verbs are actually quite consistent across both the corpus and the experimental data, provided these are measured in a way which evaluates the observed frequencies for individual verbs against the overall observed frequencies in the respective datasets.
- Keywords
- production, verb bias, syntax, dative alternation
Citation
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1934047
- MLA
- Colleman, Timothy, and Sarah Bernolet. “Alternation Biases in Corpora vs. Picture Description Experiments: DO-Biased and PD-Biased Verbs in the Dutch Dative Alternation.” Frequency Effects in Language Representation, edited by Dagmar Divjak and Stefan Th Gries, de Gruyter Mouton, 2012, pp. 87–125.
- APA
- Colleman, T., & Bernolet, S. (2012). Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation. In D. Divjak & S. T. Gries (Eds.), Frequency effects in language representation (pp. 87–125). Berlin, Germany ; New York, NY, USA: de Gruyter Mouton.
- Chicago author-date
- Colleman, Timothy, and Sarah Bernolet. 2012. “Alternation Biases in Corpora vs. Picture Description Experiments: DO-Biased and PD-Biased Verbs in the Dutch Dative Alternation.” In Frequency Effects in Language Representation, edited by Dagmar Divjak and Stefan Th Gries, 87–125. Berlin, Germany ; New York, NY, USA: de Gruyter Mouton.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Colleman, Timothy, and Sarah Bernolet. 2012. “Alternation Biases in Corpora vs. Picture Description Experiments: DO-Biased and PD-Biased Verbs in the Dutch Dative Alternation.” In Frequency Effects in Language Representation, ed by. Dagmar Divjak and Stefan Th Gries, 87–125. Berlin, Germany ; New York, NY, USA: de Gruyter Mouton.
- Vancouver
- 1.Colleman T, Bernolet S. Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation. In: Divjak D, Gries ST, editors. Frequency effects in language representation. Berlin, Germany ; New York, NY, USA: de Gruyter Mouton; 2012. p. 87–125.
- IEEE
- [1]T. Colleman and S. Bernolet, “Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation,” in Frequency effects in language representation, D. Divjak and S. T. Gries, Eds. Berlin, Germany ; New York, NY, USA: de Gruyter Mouton, 2012, pp. 87–125.
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abstract = {{In semantic studies of argument structure alternations as well as in recent psycholinguistic research on syntactic priming, the concept of alternation bias, i.e. the lexical preferences of individual verbs for one of two (or more) alternating constructions, plays a crucial role. This paper offers a detailed comparison of the results from Colleman’s (2009) corpus-based investigation of the dative alternation in Dutch with the findings from a series of picture description experiments reported in Bernolet (2008). On the one hand, this comparison reveals a striking contrast between both datasets in terms of the overall proportions of double object (DO) versus prepositional dative (PD) instances. On the other hand, it will be shown that the alternation biases of individual dative verbs are actually quite consistent across both the corpus and the experimental data, provided these are measured in a way which evaluates the observed frequencies for individual verbs against the overall observed frequencies in the respective datasets.}},
author = {{Colleman, Timothy and Bernolet, Sarah}},
booktitle = {{Frequency effects in language representation}},
editor = {{Divjak, Dagmar and Gries, Stefan Th}},
isbn = {{9783110273786}},
keywords = {{production,verb bias,syntax,dative alternation}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{87--125}},
publisher = {{de Gruyter Mouton}},
title = {{Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation}},
year = {{2012}},
}