Experience Counts Frequency Effects In Language

Author : Heike Behrens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110346915
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language written by Heike Behrens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Heike Behrens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110346923
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experience Counts written by Heike Behrens and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequency is a critical factor in shaping emerging linguistic systems, be it in individual's first or second language learning, or in the historical or social dimensions of language change. This volume comprises studies that show how and which patterns are abstracted from what the language speakers hear, and what makes them adopt new usages or constructions.

Author : James Manderton
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3964876844
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frequency Effects And Language Change written by James Manderton and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar), course: Historical Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Concise overview over different mechanisms in the sphere of Language change. English is looking back onto a long and rich history of development. Being part of the Indo-European language family, the origins of the language could be argued to date back as much as 6000 years. However, most scholars seem to agree that the ‘true’, traceable genesis of English starts somewhere around the time of the Anglo-Saxon migration to the British Isles in in the fifth century CE. Thus, English can be understood as part of the Germanic language family tree. Today, only a relatively small part of the lexicon of English still reflects this beginning, as, over the course of many centuries, the language underwent a multitude of internally, externally and extra-linguistically motivated changes. Some followed major historical events such as the Norman Conquest in 1066 and the subsequently existing French influences or the Middle Ages and renaissance, which brought with them a great emphasis on Latin. While these mainly influenced the lexicon of English through loanwords, other developments, such as Sound Shifts (most notably the First Sound Shift, which is described by Grimm’s Law that illustrates the differences between Germanic and other Indo-European languages), or the transition from Old English as an inflectional language to Middle English becoming an isolating or analytic language, had lasting influences on every major linguistic field of English.

Author : Insa Gülzow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110977907
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition written by Insa Gülzow and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107085756
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frequency in Language written by Dagmar Divjak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Author : Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110274078
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frequency Effects in Language Representation written by Dagmar Divjak and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110274051
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing written by Stefan Th. Gries and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nikolay Hakimov
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103305
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Russian-German code-mixing written by Nikolay Hakimov and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of grammatical variation in language mixing has been at the core of research into bilingual language practices. Although various motivations have been proposed in the literature to account for possible mixing patterns, some of them are either controversial, or remain untested. Little is still known about whether and how frequency of use of linguistic elements can contribute to the patterning of bilingual talk. This book is the first to systematically explore the factor usage frequency in a corpus of bilingual speech. The two aims are (i) to describe and analyze the variation in mixing patterns in the speech of Russia German adolescents and young adults in Germany, and (ii) to propose and test usage-based explanations of variation in mixing patterns in three morphosyntactic contexts: the adjective-modified noun phrase, the prepositional phrase, and the plural marking of German noun insertions in bilingual sentences. In these contexts, German noun insertions combine with either Russian or German words and grammatical markers, thus yielding mixed bilingual and German monolingual constituents in otherwise Russian sentences, the latter also labelled as embedded-language islands. The results suggest that the frequency with which words are used together mediates the distribution of mixing patterns in each of the examined contexts. The differing impacts of co-occurrence frequency are attributed to the distributional and semantic specifics of the analyzed morphosyntactic configurations. Lexical frequency has been found to be another important determinant in this variation. Other factors include recency, or lexical priming, in discourse in the case of prepositional phrases, and phonological and structural similarities and differences in the inflectional systems of the contact languages in the case of plural marking.

Author : Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107086868
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing English Language written by Marianne Hundt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498817
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammar Network written by Holger Diessel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.