Frequency Effects in Language: Volume 2 Frequency Effects in Language Representation

✍ Scribed by Dagmar Divjak (editor); Stefan Th. Gries (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 244.2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Things going unnoticed - A usage-based analysis of go-constructions
The Locative Alternation and the Russian ‘empty’ prefixes: A case study of the verb gruzit’ ‘load’
Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation
A unified lexicon and grammar? Compositional and non-compositional phrases in the lexicon
Measuring Mental Entrenchment of Phrases with Perceptual Identification, Familiarity Ratings, and Corpus Frequency Statistics
Figurative extensions of word meaning: How do corpus data and intuition match up?
Conversion and the lexicon: Comparing evidence from corpora and experimentation
As lexical as it gets: The role of co-occurrence of antonyms in a visual lexical decision experiment
Subject index