Grammaticalization component: supplies function words and labeled bracketings that make utterances sound smooth¶

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Description¶

Grammaticalization is the segment that takes over after orientation and lexicalization. Its function is to "throw in the function words and other niceties which make an utterance sound smooth," supplying the words that appear mysteriously in the final sentence. It also "provides labeled bracketings so that the phonology will have something to work on."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• An oriented (and lexicalized) semantic network to which function words and bracketings can be added

Constraints¶

• The author reports Labov has not made the transition into this component fully clear

Target Learners¶

• linguists and language researchers

Target Learning Goals¶

• understanding how grammatical form is added to content in language production

Affordances¶

• Labov Style As Function Of Grammar Theory

Claims¶

Related Elements¶

• Oriented semantic network: linear ordering of the semantic network treated as psychological rather than grammatical
• Phonologization: final segment applying phonology to the bracketed utterance
• Semantic network: content words connected by lines as the starting point of the production model

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Legum, Stanley E. (1970). On the Facts of the Language in Question or a Conversation with W. Labov. Southwest Regional Laboratory Technical Note TN-2-70-47. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED108215