Frequency Of Use And The Organization Of Language

Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195301564

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Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language by Joan Bybee Pdf

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 : Joan L. Bybee,Paul Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229481

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Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure by Joan L. Bybee,Paul Hopper Pdf

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 : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139487023

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Language, Usage and Cognition by Joan Bybee Pdf

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and variance. It outlines a theory of language that addresses the nature of grammar, taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in terms of the recurrent processes that operate in language use. The evidence is based on the study of large corpora of spoken and written language, what we know about how languages change, as well as the results of experiments with language users. The result is an integrated theory of language use and language change which has implications for cognitive processing and language evolution.

Author : Przemyslaw Turek,Julia Nintemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110783872

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Maltese by Przemyslaw Turek,Julia Nintemann Pdf

This volume features nine articles, covering various aspects of Maltese linguistics: Part I, mostly dedicated to the Maltese lexicon, opens with Bednarowicz’s comparison of Maltese and Arabic adjectives. Fabri then categorizes various types of constructions involving the preposition ta’ ‘of’. The paper by Lucas and Spagnol discusses Maltese words containing an innovative final /n/. Part II deals with the syntax of Maltese: Azzopardi’s paper focuses on a construction in Maltese which consists of a sequence of two or more finite verbs. Just and Čéplö present the first corpus based study of differential object indexing in Maltese. In Part III on morphosyntax, Turek analyzes Arabic prepositions in Classical/Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects and contrasts them with their Maltese equivalents. Stolz and Vorholt then analyze the structural and functional similarities and differences of spatial interrogatives in Maltese and Spanish. Vorholt then investigates the adpositions of sixteen European languages including Maltese and examines the relationship between length and frequency. The volume is closed with Part IV on phonology and Avram’s paper, in which the diachrony of voicing assimilation in consonant clusters is reconstructed.

Author : Patrick Rebuschat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268723

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Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages by Patrick Rebuschat Pdf

Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decision making, and social interaction, are largely dependent on implicit (unconscious) knowledge. Given its relevance, it is not surprising that the study of implicit learning plays a central role in the cognitive sciences. The present volume brings together eminent researchers from a variety of fields (e.g., cognitive psychology, linguistics, education, cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology) in order to assess the progress made in the study of implicit and explicit learning, to critically evaluate key concepts and methodologies, and to determine future directions to take in this interdisciplinary enterprise. The eighteen chapters in this volume are written in an accessible and engaging fashion; together, they provide the reader with a comprehensive snapshot of the exciting current work on the implicit and explicit learning of languages.

Author : Jeannette Littlemore,John R. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441152916

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics by Jeannette Littlemore,John R. Taylor Pdf

The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of methods and current research topics and future directions. The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field. It devotes space to looking specifically at the major figures and their contributions. It is a complete resource for postgraduate students and researchers working within cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and those interested more generally in language and cognition.

Author : Paul Ibbotson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110647914

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What it Takes to Talk by Paul Ibbotson Pdf

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon. For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory, attention, inhibition, categorisation, analogy and social cognition - the book examines how they shape the development of sounds, words and grammar. The unfolding cognitive and social world of the child interacts with, constrains, and predicts language use at its deepest levels. The conclusion is that language is special, not because it is an encapsulated module separate from the rest of cognition, but because of the forms it can take rather than the parts it is made of, and because it could be nature’s finest example of cognitive recycling and reuse.

Author : Thomas Hoffmann,Graeme Trousdale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199376636

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The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar by Thomas Hoffmann,Graeme Trousdale Pdf

The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar, as a kind of cognitive linguistics, differs significantly from mainstream generative grammar as espoused by Chomsky and his followers. Advocates of Construction Grammar see it as a psychologically plausible theory of human language. As such, it is capable of providing a principled account of language acquisition, language variation and language change. Research in Construction Grammar also includes multidisciplinary cognitive studies in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to Construction Grammar. Divided into five sections, the book will be an invaluable resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a comprehensive account of current work on Construction Grammar, its theoretical foundations, and its applications to and relationship with other kinds of linguistic enquiry.

Author : Ferenc Kiefer,Mária Ladányi,Péter Siptár
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273833

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Current Issues in Morphological Theory by Ferenc Kiefer,Mária Ladányi,Péter Siptár Pdf

The present volume contains selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting held in Budapest, 13–16 May 2010, organized under the auspices of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The selection of papers presented here addresses problems of language use in one or another sense, covering issues of regularity, irregularity and analogy, as well as the role of frequency in morphological complexity, morphological change and language acquisition. The languages discussed include Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Lovari (Romani) and Russian. The contributors are Anna Anastassiadis-Symeonidis, Mario Andreou, Márton András Baló, Dunstan Brown, Gabriela Caballero, Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Roger Evans, Alice C. Harris, László Kálmán, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabine Laaha, Laura E. Lettner, Maria Mitsiaki, Péter Rácz, Angela Ralli, Péter Rebrus, Alan K. Scott, and Miklós Törkenczy.

Author : Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107085756

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Frequency in Language by Dagmar Divjak Pdf

Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Author : Monika S. Schmid,Barbara Köpke
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198793595

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The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition by Monika S. Schmid,Barbara Köpke Pdf

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. Topics covered include theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages.

Author : Heike Behrens,Stefan Pfänder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110346916

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Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language by Heike Behrens,Stefan Pfänder Pdf

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 : Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118732267

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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II by Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213169514

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Language by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dagmar Divjak,Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110274073

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Frequency Effects in Language Representation by Dagmar Divjak,Stefan Th. Gries Pdf

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.