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Record W2555624138 · doi:10.3968/8846

The Role of Syntax and Semantics in the Grammars of English Learners

2016· article· en· W2555624138 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Guy Matthews

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in literature and language · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguisticsComputer scienceSyntaxFocus (optics)Rule-based machine translationInterlanguageParsingSecond-language acquisitionNatural language processingArtificial intelligencePhilosophy

Abstract

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The extent to which syntactic models, semantic models or combined models incorporating both syntactic and semantic elements explain the language used by learners has been much researched. This study assumes that there is an innate language faculty which plays a fundamental part in a native speaker’s acquisition of their first language. In particular it will focus on the use of reflexives, a highly abstruse area which is not part of formal English teaching. However, posited syntactic models of how reflexives are used and interpreted do not seem to fully explain native speaker intuitions. This discontinuity between the syntactic models and the results from data obtained from informants has also become apparent in the research into Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Thus, this research will look at a model which combines the syntactic theory of movement at Logical Form with the semantic theory that pronouns and reflexives can be described in terms of logophoricity. Testing will then be undertaken of native speakers of English as well as native speakers of Mandarin Chinese to see if this model can account for their intuitions about English reflexive pronoun

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.246
Threshold uncertainty score0.142

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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