phrasal verbs

[Janet Y Bang]

Hello,

We have a question about linkages/compounds. We have been transcribing samples of LENA recordings in English (caregiver-child interactions with 2-year-old children) and we have compiled a list now of different phrasal verbs in transcripts. We defined phrasal verbs as units of "verb + adverb or preposition" where the meaning is attributed to the unit more than the meaning of each individual word.

Our main interests for now are to collect measures of tokens, types (lemma), and MLUw (not morphemes) of caregiver and child speech. Determining the linkages are important for our measure of types, since we will be collapsing across word families with the lemmas.

I noticed in the English MOR the n+v+prep.cut file has some phrasal verbs (e.g., dress up), but I wanted to check if there was some school of thought on how they should be treated? There are always situational issues we've come across with these. For example, in the case of particle verbs, sometimes these are transitive, so we weren't sure on how these should/would be transcribed (e.g., clean up your toys vs. clean that up). Also, it's not always clear from the usage if it is following our definition of "meaning is attributed to the unit more than the meaning of each individual word".

We were thinking of the following solutions:
1. Link all phrasal verbs only when the key words are combined next to each other (e.g., clean up)
2. Link all phrasal verbs. In the case of transitive particle verbs, link those variations as well and count these all towards their respective 'particle verb family' (e.g., "clean that up" would be counted towards a type of "clean up")
3. Do not link any phrasal verbs (e.g., for "clean up", this would separated into the type "clean" and the type "up").



ate_up
back_up
calm_down
catch_up
chill_out
clean_up
come_back
come_here
come_on
come_out
come_over
drank_up
dress_up
get_down
get_out
get_up
giddy_up
go_ahead
go_on
hang_on
here_we_go
here_you_go
hold_on
hold_up
hurry_up
lay_down
let_go
light_up
lights_out
make_up
pick_up
pull_up
slow_down
stand_up
stay_out
take_care
throw_up
wake_up
watch_it
watch_out
work_out
zoom_in


Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

Janet



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Janet Y. Bang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Psychology

Stanford University


jbang at stanford.edu




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