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A Usage-Based Account of Constituency and Reanalysis
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Beckner, Clay; Bybee, Joan – Language Learning, 2009
Constituent structure is considered to be the very foundation of linguistic competence and often considered to be innate, yet we show here that it is derivable from the domain-general processes of chunking and categorization. Using modern and diachronic corpus data, we show that the facts support a view of constituent structure as gradient (as…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Variation, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)