Article Structure
Abstract
Any given verb can appear in some syntactic frames (Sally broke the vase, The vase broke) but not others (*Sally broke at the vase, *Sally broke the vase to John).
Introduction
Verbs vary in terms of which syntactic frames they can appear in (Table 1).
Empirical Status of the Semantic Consistency Hypothesis
Given the prominence of the Semantic Consistency Hypothesis in both theory and practice, one might expect that it was on firm empirical footing.
VerbCorner
The VerbCorner Project3 is devoted to collecting semantic judgments for a comprehensive set of verbs along a comprehensive set of theoretically-relevant semantic dimension.
Results
The full data and annotations will be released in the near future and may be available now by request.
Conclusion and Future Work
Results of Phase 1 provide support for the Semantic Consistency Hypothesis, at least as a strong bias.
Topics
language acquisition
- If true, this fact would have striking implications for theories and models of language acquisition , as well as numerous applications in natural language processing.Page 1, “Abstract”
- It is frequently invoked in theories of language acquisition .Page 1, “Introduction”
- It has also been employed in models of language acquisition (Parisien and Stevenson, 2011; Barak et al., 2012).Page 2, “Introduction”
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