A quantitative evaluation of linguistic tests for the automatic prediction of semantic markedness
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
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When the markedness analysis is extended to the lexical and grammatical levels, the question arises whether an analogue of the markedness/frequency correlation, observed in phonology, also exists on these higher linguistic levels. This article presents evidence that in some interesting cases, such as tense and aspect forms in English, the correlation does not hold and that this failure is due not simply to superficial stylistic factors but rather to the inability of the markedness hypothesis to provide an adequate framework for the analysis of the English verbal system.