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Schemas and the frequency/acceptability mismatch: Corpus distribution predicts sentence judgments

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2020
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Flach, S. (2020). Schemas and the frequency/acceptability mismatch: Corpus distribution predicts sentence judgments. Cognitive Linguistics, 31(4), 609–645. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-2040

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A tight connection between competence and performance is a central tenet of the usage-based model. Methodologically, however, corpus frequency is a poor predictor of acceptability – a phenomenon known as the “frequency/acceptability mismatch”. This article argues that the mismatch arises from a “methodological mismatch”, when simple frequency measures are mapped onto complex grammatical units. To illustrate, we discuss the results of acceptability judgments of go/come-v. The construction is subject to a formal constraint (Go see the d

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31

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4

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609

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645

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Linguistics and Language, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, frequency/acceptability mismatch, methodological mismatch, acceptability judgment task, formal constraint, constructional semantics, correspondence analysis, association, converging evidence

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English

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2020-10-28

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2021-01-27

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0936-5907

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Flach, S. (2020). Schemas and the frequency/acceptability mismatch: Corpus distribution predicts sentence judgments. Cognitive Linguistics, 31(4), 609–645. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-2040

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