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Author : James Manderton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3964876852
Author : Heike Behrens,Stefan Pfänder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110384598
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 : Stefan Th. Gries,Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110274059
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 : James Manderton
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783964876843
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 : Heike Behrens,Stefan Pfänder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110346916
Frequency is a critical factor in shaping emerging linguistic systems, be it in 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 the language speakers hear, and what makes them adopt new usages or constructions.
Author : Heike Behrens,Stefan Pfänder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Frequency (Linguistics)
ISBN : 3110346923
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 : Insa Gülzow,Natalia Gagarina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110977905
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 : Insa Gülzow,Natalia Gagarina
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110196719
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 : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195301564
This volume collects three decades of articles by distinguish linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance of 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.
Author : Dagmar Divjak,Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110274073
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 : Joan L. Bybee,Paul J. Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298034
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.
Author : B. Phillips
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230286610
This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and other types of change affecting the least frequent words first.
Author : Anna Mauranen,Svetlana Vetchinnikova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108492850
Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.
Author : Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118732267
An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics. This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.
Author : Malte Rosemeyer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270405
Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the change in Spanish perfect auxiliary selection between Old and Early Modern Spanish that led to the gradual replacement of the auxiliary ser ‘be’ with the auxiliary haber ‘have’. It analyses this process in terms of the interaction between gradience, gradualness, and the conserving effects of frequency and persistence in language change. The study contributes to the theory and methodology of diachronic linguistics, additionally offering insights on how to explain synchronic grammatical variation both within a language and between languages. The book is of interest to the fields of Spanish and Romance linguistics, syntax, as well as historical and variationist linguistics.
