Using constructions to measure developmental language complexity

IF 1.8 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI:10.1515/cog-2023-0062
Robert Nelson
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Models used to explain phenomena are necessarily finer grained than the models used to measure them. In language study, the measures used to assess development (e.g., readability indices) rely on models of language that are too coarse grained to be interpreted in a linguistic framework and so do not participate in linguistic accounts of development. This study argues that the constructionist approaches provide a framework for the development of a practical and interpretable measure of developmental complexity because these approaches feature affordances from which a measurement model may be derived: they describe language knowledge as a comprehensive network of enumerable entities that do not require the imputation of external processes, are extensible to early child language, and hold that the drivers of language development are the learning and generalization of constructions. It is argued here that treating schematic constructions as the unit of language knowledge supports a complexity measure that can reflect developmental changes arising from the learning and productive generalization of these units.
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利用结构来衡量语言发展的复杂性
用于解释现象的模型必然比用于测量现象的模型更精细。在语言研究中,用于评估发展的测量方法(如可读性指数)所依赖的语言模型过于粗糙,无法在语言学框架内进行解释,因此无法参与语言学对发展的描述。本研究认为,建构主义方法为发展实用的、可解释的发展复杂性测量方法提供了一个框架,因为这些方法的特点是可以衍生出一个测量模型:它们将语言知识描述为一个由无数实体组成的综合网络,不需要外部过程的归因,可扩展到早期儿童语言,并认为语言发展的驱动力是建构的学习和泛化。本文认为,将图式结构作为语言知识的单位,可以支持一种复杂性测量方法,这种方法可以反映这些单位的学习和生产性泛化所带来的发展变化。
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期刊介绍: Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon. Topics the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery); the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity; the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics; the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background; the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity.
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