Gries / Divjak Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-027405-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 244.1, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

The volume contains a collection of studies on how the analysis of corpus and psycholinguistic data reveal how linguistic knowledge is affected by the frequency of linguistic elements/stimuli. The studies explore a wide range of phenomena , from phonological reduction processes and palatalization to morphological productivity, diachronic change, adjective preposition constructions, auxiliary omission, and multi-word units. The languages studied are Spanish and artificial languages, Russian, Dutch, and English. The sister volume focuses on language representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gries, Stefan Th.

Divjak, Dagmar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction;7
2;What can we count in language, and what counts in language acquisition, cognition, and use?;13
3;Are effects of word frequency effects of context of use? An analysis of initial fricative reduction in Spanish;41
4;What statistics do learners track? Rules, constraints and schemas in (artificial) grammar learning;59
5;Relative frequency effects in Russian morphology;89
6;Frequency, conservative gender systems, and the language-learning child: Changing systems of pronominal reference in Dutch;115
7;Frequency Effects and Transitional Probabilities in L1 and L2 Speakers’ Processing of Multiword Expressions;151
8;You talking to me? Corpus and experimental data on the zero auxiliary interrogative in British English;183
9;The predictive value of word-level perplexity in human sentence processing: A case study on fixed adjective-preposition constructions in Dutch;213
10;Index;247

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan T. Gries, University of California, USA; Dagmar Divjak, University of Sheffield, UK.