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Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories : What Corpus Data Do and Do Not Reveal About The Mind / Alice Blumenthal-Dramé.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 83Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110293852
  • 9783110294002
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.9 22/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Conventions. List of Predictor Variables and their Abbreviations -- Tables -- Figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction and overview -- Chapter 2. Entrenchment in usage-based theories -- Chapter 3. The cognitive realism of usage-based generalizations, with a special focus on the relationship between token frequencies and entrenchment -- Chapter 4. Operationalizing entrenchment -- Chapter 5. Experimental design -- Chapter 6. Behavioural data analysis -- Chapter 7. Neuroimaging Data Analysis -- Chapter 8. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Appendixes. Auxiliary Figures on Neuroanatomy, Concluding questionnaire, and Stimuli -- Index
Summary: This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the correlation between corpus-extracted usage data and mental entrenchment, the author operationalises entrenchment in Gestalt psychological terms and conducts a series of behavioural and neuroimaging experiments.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Conventions. List of Predictor Variables and their Abbreviations -- Tables -- Figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction and overview -- Chapter 2. Entrenchment in usage-based theories -- Chapter 3. The cognitive realism of usage-based generalizations, with a special focus on the relationship between token frequencies and entrenchment -- Chapter 4. Operationalizing entrenchment -- Chapter 5. Experimental design -- Chapter 6. Behavioural data analysis -- Chapter 7. Neuroimaging Data Analysis -- Chapter 8. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Appendixes. Auxiliary Figures on Neuroanatomy, Concluding questionnaire, and Stimuli -- Index

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This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the correlation between corpus-extracted usage data and mental entrenchment, the author operationalises entrenchment in Gestalt psychological terms and conducts a series of behavioural and neuroimaging experiments.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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