Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language

✍ Scribed by Heike Behrens (editor); Stefan Pfänder (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Series: linguae & litterae; 54
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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. A corpus-based study of spoken English
Recency as a factor of phonological variation
Frequency effects in lexical sociolectometry are insubstantial
Input optimization. Effects of type and token frequency manipulations in instructed second language learning
Modeling frequency effects in language change
Frequency and lexical specificity in grammar: A critical review
Frequency in language learning and language change. The contributions to this volume from a cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective