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.

Frequency Effects in Language Representation
Frequency Effects in Language Representation

Author: Dagmar Divjak

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 3110274078

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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 sister volume focuses on language learning and processing.

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.

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.

Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure

Author: Joan L. Bybee

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2001-10-15

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9027298033

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A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major principles. First, the content of people’s interactions consists of a preponderance of subjective, evaluative statements, dominated by the use of pronouns, copulas and intransitive clauses. Second, the frequency with which certain items and strings of items are used has a profound influence on the way language is broken up into chunks in memory storage, the way such chunks are related to other stored material and the ease with which they are accessed to produce new utterances.

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: 243

ISBN-13: 3110384590

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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.

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.

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.

Word Frequency Distributions
Word Frequency Distributions

Author: R. Harald Baayen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-07-31

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780792370178

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the statistical analysis of word frequency distributions, intended for computational linguists, corpus linguists, psycholinguists, and researchers in the field of quantitative stylistics. It aims to make these techniques more accessible for non-specialists, both theoretically, by means of a careful introduction to the underlying probabilistic and statistical concepts, and practically, by providing a program library implementing the main models for word frequency distributions.

Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Author: Joan Bybee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-12-07

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0198041292

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This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance off frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. Her work has been very influential for a broad range of researchers in linguistics, particularly in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, phonology, phonetics, and historical linguistics.