Abstract This paper explores the proposed benefits of ΔP (delta P) as a measure of collocation strength. Its focus is on contrasting ΔP with other, more commonly used, association measures, particularly transitional probabilities, but also mutual information and Lexical Gravity G. To this end, first the strong correlation between ΔP and transitional probability is illustrated with the help of two exemplary corpora. This is followed by an analysis of hesitation placement in spontaneous spoken English, based on the assumption that hesitations will not be placed within strong collocations. Results show that, despite their strong similarity, in some contexts ΔP is more predictive of hesitation placement than transitional probability. Yet neither ΔP nor any of the other association measures emerges as the universally best predictor. On the basis of these results, it is suggested that studies should always rely on several association measures.

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ΔP作为搭配强度的量度

摘要本文探讨了ΔP（增量P）作为搭配强度度量的建议好处。它的重点是将ΔP与其他更常用的关联度量（特别是过渡概率）以及相互信息和词汇重力G进行对比。为此，首先借助两个示例来说明ΔP与过渡概率之间的强相关性语料库。接下来是基于假设不会将犹豫放在强烈的搭配中的假设，分析自发英语的犹豫位置。结果表明，尽管它们有很强的相似性，但在某些情况下，ΔP比过渡概率更能预测犹豫。然而，ΔP和任何其他关联度量都没有成为普遍最佳的预测指标。