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Predicting the dative alternation
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In: http://www.stanford.edu/~bresnan/CFI04.pdf (2007)
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Predicting the dative alternation
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In: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/%7Ehbaayen/publications/BresnanEtAL.pdf (2005)
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Predicting the dative alternation
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In: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/documents/04-BresnanEtAL2007.pdf (2005)
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Theoretical linguists have traditionally relied on linguistic intuitions such as grammaticality judgments for their data. But the massive growth of computer-readable texts and recordings, the availability of cheaper, more powerful computers and software, and the development of new probabilistic models for language have now made the spontaneous use of language in natural settings a rich and easily accessible alternative source of data. Surprisingly, many linguists believe that such ‘usage data ’ are irrelevant to the theory of grammar. Four problems are repeatedly brought up in the critiques of usage data— 1. correlated factors seeming to support reductive theories, 2. pooled data invalidating grammatical inference, 3. syntactic choices reducing to lexical biases, and 4. cross-corpus differences undermining corpus studies. Presenting a case study of work on the English dative alternation, we show first, that linguistic intuitions of grammaticality are deeply flawed and seriously underestimate the space of grammatical possibility, and second, that the four problems in the critique of usage data are empirical issues that can be resolved by using modern statistical theory and modelling strategies widely used in other fields. The new models allow linguistic theory to solve more difficult problems than it has in the past, and to build convergent projects with psychology, computer science, and allied fields of cognitive science. 1 The Problem Imagine a child trying to convey the message that a person named Susan gave toys to some children. 1 Through an incremental process of formulating a sentence, the partial expression Susan gave has already been constructed. Two items from the message could now fill the position after the verb: children and toys. If toys is inserted first, a
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URL: http://esslli2009.labri.fr/documents/04-BresnanEtAL2007.pdf
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Predicting the dative alternation
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In: http://www.stanford.edu/~bresnan/qs-submit.pdf (2005)
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In: http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/720-0305/720-BRESNAN-0-0.PDF (2004)
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