Idiom Variation: Experimental Data and a Blueprint of a Computational Model

نویسندگان

  • Kristina Geeraert
  • John Newman
  • R. Harald Baayen
چکیده

Corpus surveys have shown that the exact forms with which idioms are realized are subject to variation. We report a rating experiment showing that such alternative realizations have varying degrees of acceptability. Idiom variation challenges processing theories associating idioms with fixed multi-word form units (Bobrow & Bell, 1973), fixed configurations of words (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988), or fixed superlemmas (Sprenger, Levelt, & Kempen, 2006), as they do not explain how it can be that speakers produce variant forms that listeners can still make sense of. A computational model simulating comprehension with naive discriminative learning is introduced that provides an explanation for the different degrees of acceptability of several idiom variant types. Implications for multi-word units in general are discussed.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Topics in cognitive science

دوره 9 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017