Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language (Hardcover)

Heike Behrens

ISBN 10: 3110343428 / ISBN 13: 9783110343427

Published by De Gruyter, Berlin, 2016

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Hardcover. 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. Frequency is a critical factor in shaping emerging linguistic systems, be it in first or second language learning, or in the historical or social dimensions of language change. This volume comprises studies that show how and which patterns are abstracted from the language speakers hear, and what makes them adopt new usages or constructions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9783110343427

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Title: Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in ...

Publisher: De Gruyter, Berlin

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: new

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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.