Frequency Effects in Language Representation

Dagmar Divjak

ISBN 10: 3110273780 / ISBN 13: 9783110273786

Published by De Gruyter, DE, 2012

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frequency Effects in Language Representation
• Publisher: De Gruyter, DE
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110273780
• ISBN 13: 9783110273786
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 551 grams

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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.

About the Author

Dagmar Divjak, University of Sheffield, UK;

Stefan T. Gries, University of California, USA.