Open AccessUsage-based preferences in written sentence production: The role of local and global statistics
Author(s) -
Barbara Hemforth,
Michel Fayol,
Sébastien Pacton
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2010.8
Subject(s) - homophone , sentence , production (economics) , computer science , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , statistics , mathematics , economics , philosophy , macroeconomics
In this paper, we will discuss the role of different levels of frequency distributions in sentenceprocessing and in written production, looking at French homophones. A comparison of experimentaldata and corpus statistics will demonstrate that lexical frequencies as well as local and globalcoherences have to be taken into account to fully explain the empirically established patterns.