Geeraert Kristina, Newman John, Baayen R Harald
Department of Linguistics, KU Leuven.
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta.
Top Cogn Sci. 2017 Jul;9(3):653-669. doi: 10.1111/tops.12263. Epub 2017 Mar 20.
Corpus surveys have shown that the exact forms with which idioms are realized are subject to variation. We report a rating experiment showing that such alternative realizations have varying degrees of acceptability. Idiom variation challenges processing theories associating idioms with fixed multi-word form units (Bobrow & Bell, 1973), fixed configurations of words (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988), or fixed superlemmas (Sprenger, Levelt, & Kempen, 2006), as they do not explain how it can be that speakers produce variant forms that listeners can still make sense of. A computational model simulating comprehension with naive discriminative learning is introduced that provides an explanation for the different degrees of acceptability of several idiom variant types. Implications for multi-word units in general are discussed.
语料库调查表明，习语实现的具体形式存在变化。我们报告了一项评级实验，该实验表明这些替代形式具有不同程度的可接受性。习语变体对将习语与固定的多词形式单元（Bobrow & Bell，1973）、单词的固定配置（Cacciari & Tabossi，1988）或固定的超级词元（Sprenger、Levelt & Kempen，2006）相关联的处理理论提出了挑战，因为这些理论无法解释说话者如何能够产生听众仍然能够理解的变体形式。引入了一个使用朴素判别学习来模拟理解的计算模型，该模型为几种习语变体类型的不同程度的可接受性提供了解释。还讨论了对一般多词单元的影响。
