Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing
Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing

Author: Stefan Th. Gries

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3110274051

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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.

Experience Counts
Experience Counts

Author: Heike Behrens

Publisher: ISSN

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783110343427

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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.

The Multilingual Mind
The Multilingual Mind

Author: Michael Sharwood Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-02-06

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1107729602

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Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and view the world. Most people on this planet are in some sense multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds. The mental architecture proposed in this volume permits research across many domains in cognitive science to be integrated and explored within one explanatory framework, recasting compatible insights and findings in terms of a common set of terms and concepts. The MOGUL framework has already proven effective for shedding light on the relationship between processing and learning, metalinguistic knowledge, consciousness, optionality, crosslinguistic influence, the initial state, 'UG access', ultimate attainment, input enhancement, and even language instruction. This groundbreaking work will be essential reading for linguists working in language acquisition, multilingualism, and language processing, as well as for those working in related areas of psychology, neurology and cognitive science.

Frequency Effects in Instructed Second Language Acquisition
Frequency Effects in Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Author: Karin Madlener

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2015-10

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9783110405545

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Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods, and tests these in the second language classroom context.

Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language
Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language

Author: Heike Behrens

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-02-22

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3110346915

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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.

Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning
Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning

Author: Edith Kaan

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2021-09-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9027258945

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There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume presents a collection of current research, insights, and directions regarding the role of prediction in L2 processing and learning. The contributions in this volume specifically address how different (L1-based) theoretical models of prediction apply to or may be expanded to account for L2 processing, report new insights on factors (linguistic, cognitive, social) that modulate L2 users’ engagement in prediction, and discuss the functions that prediction may or may not serve in L2 processing and learning. Taken together, this volume illustrates various fruitful approaches to investigating and accounting for differences in predictive processing within and across individuals, as well as across populations.

Frequency in Language
Frequency in Language

Author: Dagmar Divjak

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107085756

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Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing
Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing

Author: Bill VanPatten

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9027287481

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This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e.g., relative clauses, wh-gaps, gender, number) to examine various issues in second language processing: first language influence, whether or not non-natives can achieve native-like processing, the roles of context and prosody, the effects of working memory, and others. The researchers include both established scholars and newer voices, all offering important insights into the factors that affect processing and parsing in a second language.

Second Language Speech Learning
Second Language Speech Learning

Author: Ratree Wayland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-04

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 1108882366

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Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.

Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition
Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition

Author: Insa Gülzow

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 3110977907

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The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language. A major strength of the book is that the role of input frequency in the acquisition process is evaluated in a large variety of languages, topics and the two major theoretical frameworks: UG-based and usage-based accounts. While most papers report a clear frequency effect, different factors that may be interacting with pure statistical effects are critically assessed. An introductory statement is made by Thomas Roeper who calls for caution as he identifies frequency as a non-coherent concept and argues for a precise definition of what can and cannot be explained by statistical effects.