Oriented semantic network: linear ordering of the semantic network treated as psychological rather than grammatical¶

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Description¶

The oriented semantic network is the second segment, produced when the semantic network "is put in some linear order." Labov treats this ordering as "a psychological matter more than a grammatical matter," allowing any of the possible orderings of a network; each legitimate ordering gives rise to some corresponding sentence, such as a passive for one ordering of the boy-hurt-father network.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A prior semantic network whose elements can be placed in linear order

Constraints¶

• The means by which the network is ordered is left unexplained in the note; Labov has not made all details clear to the author

Target Learners¶

• linguists and language researchers

Target Learning Goals¶

• understanding how ordering choices map content structures onto sentence forms

Affordances¶

• Labov Style As Function Of Grammar Theory

Claims¶

Related Elements¶

• Grammaticalization component: supplies function words and labeled bracketings that make utterances sound smooth
• Semantic network: content words connected by lines as the starting point of the production model
• Phonologization: final segment applying phonology to the bracketed utterance

Examples¶

• Word-net exercises linking lexical knowledge to grammatical awareness

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