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Construction Learning as a Function of Frequency, Frequency Distribution, and Function
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Ellis, Nick C.; Ferreira-Junior, Fernando – Modern Language Journal, 2009
This article considers effects of construction frequency, form, function, and prototypicality on second language acquisition (SLA). It investigates these relationships by focusing on naturalistic SLA in the European Science Foundation corpus (Perdue, 1993) of the English verb-argument constructions (VACs): verb locative (VL), verb object locative…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Statistical Distributions, Computational Linguistics