Frequency effects in language representation /

"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 frequenc...

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Other Authors: Divjak, Dagmar (Editor), Gries, Stefan Thomas, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 244.2.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:"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"--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783110274073
3110274078
1283628449
9781283628440
9786613940896
6613940895
ISSN:1861-4302 ;
Language:In English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized