This paper studies the relationship between grammar and language use by comparing word association and collocation. Since word association reveals mental semantic knowledge, usage-based approaches expect word association to mirror the relation between words in use, namely collocation. The paragraph is a more apt unit for collocation than the sentence in mirroring word association. Among measures of collocation, (simple) log likelihood and t-score turn out to be more consistent with association, with log likelihood leading by a small margin over MI or MI3. Overall, word association and collocation are quite close, but not perfectly close because of differences in relevant resources and the characteristics of lexical/semantic relations.

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搭配和单词联想

本文通过比较词的联想和搭配来研究语法和语言使用之间的关系。由于词关联揭示了心理语义知识，基于用法的方法期望词关联反映使用中词之间的关系，即搭配。在镜像词关联中，段落是比句子更适合搭配的单位。在搭配的测量中，（简单的）对数似然和 t 分数与关联更一致，对数似然比 MI 或 MI3 领先一点。总体而言，词的联想和搭配比较接近，但由于相关资源的差异和词汇/语义关系的特点，并不完全接近。