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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466069403321

Titolo

Experience counts : frequency effects in language / / edited by Heike Behrens and Stefan Pfänder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

3-11-034691-5

3-11-038459-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Linguae & litterae. Publications of the school of language & literature. Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies ; ; 54

Classificazione

ES 260

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Frequency (Linguistics)

Linguistic change

Language and languages - Variation

Psycholinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Experience counts: An introduction to frequency effects in language -- Explaining variation in plural marking of German noun insertions in Russian sentences -- Hesitation placement as evidence for chunking -- Recency as a factor of phonological variation -- Frequency effects in lexical sociolectometry are insubstantial -- Input optimization -- Modeling frequency effects in language change -- Frequency and lexical specificity in grammar: A critical review -- Frequency in language learning and language change

Sommario/riassunto

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.