Korean-speaking children’s constructional knowledge about a transitive event
Corpus analysis and Bayesian modelling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20366754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gyu-Ho Shin (0000-0002-8157-7148, Palacký University Olomouc, corresponding author), Seongmin Mun (0000-0002-7289-5320, Chosun University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 311-337 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s030500092100088x |
| PMID | 35236517 |
| OpenAlex | W4214875944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
We investigate Korean-speaking children’s knowledge about clause-level constructions involving a transitive event – active transitive and suffixal passive – through corpus analysis and Bayesian modelling. The analysis of Korean caregiver input and children’s production in CHILDES revealed that the rates of constructional patterns produced by the children mirrored those uttered by the caregivers to a considerable degree and that the caregivers’ use of case-marking was skewed towards single form-function pairings (despite the multiple form-function associations that the markers manifest). Based on these characteristics, we modelled a Bayesian learner by employing construction-based input (without considering lexical information). This simulation revealed the dominance of several constructional patterns, occupying most of the input, and their inhibitory effects on the development of the other patterns. Our findings illuminate how children shape clause-level constructional knowledge in Korean, an understudied language for this topic, as a function of input properties and domain-general learning capacities, appealing to the usage-based constructionist approach
Bayesian inference · Bayesian probability · Bayesian statistics · Language acquisition · Lexico · Transitive relation · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |