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Stanford
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Stanford
Humanities Center
Mellon
Foundation
Graduate
Research Workshop Program
Stanford
Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop:
THE
CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING
Friday, October 3, 3:30pm in 460-126:
From Lexical to Constructional: Learning Constructional Meaning
Adele Goldberg (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign)
General correlations between form and meaning at the level of argument
structure patterns have often been assumed to be innate. Claims of
innateness typically rest on the idea that the input is not rich enough
for general learning strategies to yield the required representations. The
present work demonstrates that the semantics associated with argument
structure generalizations can indeed by learned, given the nature of the
input and an understanding of general categorization strategies. It is
well-established that (non-linguistic) categorization is driven by a
functional demand for prediction and is sensitive to frequency
effects. Experimental results are reported that demonstrate that the same
elements can account for how semantic generalizations about argument
structure constructions can be learned from the input.
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This workshop is sponsored by
the Stanford Humanities Center, and funded by a grant from the Mellon
Foundation.
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