Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language; Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition, Language Change, and Language Processing

Behrens, Heike (Editor)/ Pfander, Stefan (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3110343428 / ISBN 13: 9783110343427

Published by De Gruyter, 2016

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340 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language; Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition, Language Change, and Language Processing
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110343428
• ISBN 13: 9783110343427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language learning and language change. The research presented in this volume challenges established models of linguistic representation. Instead of learning and processing language compositionally, larger units and co-occurence relations are at work. The main point taken by the authors is that by studying the effect of distributional patterns and changes in such patterns we can establish a unified framework that explains the dynamics of language systems with a limited set of processing factors.

About the Author

Heike Behrens, University of Basel, Switzerland; Stefan Pfänder, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany.