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A COGNITIVE STUDY ON THE DIRECTION OF TRANSFER IN DITRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS ACROSS FOUR LANGUAGES [PDF]

Studii de gramatică contrastivă
Ditransitive constructions, a linguistic phenomenon universally observed, express the concept of transfer. This study investigates the direction of transfer in ditransitive constructions across Chinese, English, German, and Japanese, aiming to identify
Yawen Zhong
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The Acquisition at the Interface of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by French Adult Learners

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2015
The semantically fine-grained ditransitive constructions in Mandarin Chinese show complex interaction between lexical semantics, constructional semantics and syntactic frames.
Xinyue Cécilia Yu
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Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long-Distance Dependencies. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract We report the results of two acceptability judgment experiments on English materials, which were designed in order to help disentangle predictions of syntactic theories with transformations from nontransformational theories. The materials in these experiments were motivated from examples from Pickering & Barry (1991), who provided intuitive ...
da Cunha Y, Gibson E.
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Parallel Architecture: From Problems and Mysteries to Solutions and Explanations. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
Abstract We argue that Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture (PA) is the right way to think about the architecture of the language faculty. The critical property of this architecture is that it allows for genuine explanation by allocating different aspects of linguistic phenomena to appropriate corresponding representations and capacities.
Culicover PW, Varaschin G.
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Evidence Against Syntactic Encapsulation in Large Language Models. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract Transformer‐based large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of linguistic tasks. LLMs primarily combine information across words in a sentence using the attention mechanism, implemented by “attention heads:” these components assign numerical weights linking different words in the input to one ...
McGee TA, Zhang Y, Blank IA.
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A manysi ditranzitív igék szintaxisa szemantikai megközelítésből [PDF]

Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2016
The syntax of the Mansi ditransitive verbs from the aspect of their semantics *** The paper investigates the ditransitive constructions and the ditransitive verbs of the Mansi language.
Sipőcz, Katalin
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The Complex Domain Matrix of Ditransitive Constructions

, 2022
This study focuses on the semantics of ditransitive constructions. Its main aim is to show that the semantics of this type of construction is made up of elements belonging to different conceptual domains. In order to fully analyze the complexity inherent
Unternbäumen, Enrique Huelva
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Ditransitive Verbs and the Ditransitive Construction: A Diachronic Perspective [PDF]

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2011
This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs attested in the double object argument structure pattern in a corpus of 18th-century British ...
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Explainability of neural networks for child language: Agent‐First strategy in comprehension of Korean active transitive construction

Developmental Science, Volume 26, Issue 6, November 2023., 2023
Abstract This study investigates how neural networks address the properties of children's linguistic knowledge, with a focus on the Agent‐First strategy in comprehension of an active transitive construction in Korean. We develop various neural‐network models and measure their classification performance on the test stimuli used in a behavioural ...
Gyu‐Ho Shin, Seongmin Mun
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Double object constructions and dative / accusative alternations in Spanish and Catalan: A unified account

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013
This paper has a twofold aim: to present a unified analysis of ditransitive constructions and transitivity alternations (dative/accusative alternations) in Spanish.
Anna Pineda
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