The Chicken or the Egg? A Probabilistic Analysis of English Binomials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2972042 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Bunin Benor (0009-0002-9197-8583), Sarah Benor, Roger Levy (0000-0002-4493-8864) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-278 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2006.0077 |
| OpenAlex | W2066053541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 29 |
Why is it preferable to say salt and pepper over pepper and salt? Based on an analysis of 692 binomial tokens from online corpora, we show that a number of semantic, metrical, and frequency constraints contribute significantly to ordering preferences, overshadowing the phonological factors that have traditionally been considered important. The ordering of binomials exhibits a considerable amount of variation. For example, although principal and interest is the more frequent order, interest and principal also occurs. We consider three frameworks for analysis of this variation: traditional optimality theory, stochastic optimality theory, and logistic regression. Our best models-using logistic regression-predict 79.2% of the binomial tokens and 76.7% of types, and the remainder are predicted as less frequent-but not ungrammatical-variants
Arithmetic · Binomial (polynomial) · Econometrics · Linguistics · Logistic regression · Negative binomial distribution · Optimality theory · Probabilistic logic · Remainder · Statistics · Variation (astronomy) · Authorship Attribution and Profiling · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques
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| Unique citing works | 54 |
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| Citations per year | 2,7 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |