Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar
Jonathan Dunn · 2019
A usage-based Construction Grammar (CxG) posits that slot-constraints generalize from common exemplar constructions.But what is the best model of constraint generalization?This paper evaluates competing frequencybased and association-based models across eight languages using a metric derived from the Minimum Description Length paradigm.The experiments show that association-based models produce better generalizations across all languages by a significant margin.