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Constructing a Second Language: Analyses and Computational Simulations of the Emergence of Linguistic Constructions from Usage
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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2009
This article presents an analysis of interactions in the usage, structure, cognition, coadaptation of conversational partners, and emergence of linguistic constructions. It focuses on second language development of English verb-argument constructions (VACs: VL, verb locative; VOL, verb object locative; VOO, ditransitive) with particular reference…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Statistical Distributions