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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462101903321

Titolo

Frequency effects in language representation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dagmar Divjak, Stefan Th. Gries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

1-283-62844-9

9786613940896

3-11-027407-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 244.2

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 244.2

Altri autori (Persone)

DivjakDagmar

GriesStefan Thomas <1970->

Disciplina

410.1/51

Soggetti

Frequency (Linguistics)

Linguistic change

Language and languages - Variation

Representation (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Introduction / Divjak, Dagmar -- Things going unnoticed - A usage-based analysis of go-constructions / Schönefeld, Doris -- The Locative Alternation and the Russian 'empty' prefixes: A case study of the verb gruzit' 'load' / Sokolova, Svetlana / Lyashevskaya, Olga / Janda, Laura A. -- Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation / Colleman, Timothy / Bernolet, Sarah -- A unified lexicon and grammar? Compositional and non-compositional phrases in the lexicon / Snider, Neal / Arnon, Inbal -- Measuring Mental Entrenchment of Phrases with Perceptual Identification, Familiarity Ratings, and Corpus Frequency Statistics / Caldwell-Harris, Catherine / Berant, Jonathan / Edelman, Shimon -- Figurative extensions of word meaning: How do corpus data and intuition match up? / Littlemore, Jeannette / MacArthur, Fiona -- Conversion and the lexicon: Comparing evidence from corpora and



experimentation / Teddiman, Laura -- As lexical as it gets: The role of co-occurrence of antonyms in a visual lexical decision experiment / Van de Weijer, Joost / Paradis, Carita / Willners, Caroline / Lindgren, Magnus -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume explores the relationship between well-studied aspects of language (constructional alternations, lexical contrasts and extensions and multi-word expressions) in a variety of languages (Dutch, English, Russian and Spanish) and their representation in cognition as mediated by frequency counts in both text and experiment. The state-of-the-art data collection (ranging from questionnaires to eye-tracking) and analysis (from simple chi-squared to random effects regression) techniques allow to draw theoretical conclusions from (mis)matches between different types of empirical data. The sis