Construction grammar and psycholinguistics

A discussion of construction grammar and its implications for pycholinguistics and vice versa. Here are the readings:

1. Short intro to construction grammar

* [http://www.princeton.edu/~adele/Publications_files/CaWCogLing-target%20article.pdf Overview of Adele Goldberg's Constructions at Work (30pp)]

2. Some relevant psycholinguistic results

Read at least one of the following. Even better would be to just familiarize yourself with the actual results of all 3, and skip or skim the background and discussions.

* [http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2008.016 Zeschel, A. 2008. Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing] NP objects in more frequent collocations are read faster, and the effect is stronger when finer-grained collocations are used. Is this evidence that these fine-grained collocations are stored? Does the experiment include the necessary controls to draw this conclusion?

* [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6WCR-4T1SKGS-1-9&_cdi=6745&_user=483663&_pii=S0010028508000376&_orig=search&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2009&_sk=999419998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkzS&md5=1329725e37cae1cff3be02e1f73b27ba&ie=/sdarticle.pdf Konopka, A. and K. Bock. 2009. Lexical or syntactic control of sentence formulation? Structural generalizations from idiom production] Idiomatic verb-particle constructions prime just as well as non-idiomatic ones. Only syntactically "frozen" verb-particle phrases prime less. What does this say about storage of fine-grained constructions vs coarser grained ones?

* [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6WK4-4XKXRNJ-1-3&_cdi=6896&_user=483663&_pii=S0749596X09000965&_orig=browse&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2010&_sk=999379998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzb-zSkWb&md5=9c7167d5c0c6ad3868082fdabca5ade5&ie=/sdarticle.pdf Arnon, I. and N. Snider. 2010. More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases] People respond to frequent 4-word phrases faster than less frequent ones, controlling for substring frequency. Particularly relevant for debates in the CxG community about whether phrases of "sufficient frequency" are stored, a continuous frequency is a better fit than the best categorical predictor. What kind of CxG would capture this?

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