TY - BOOK AU - Blumenthal-Dramé,Alice TI - Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories: What Corpus Data Do and Do Not Reveal About The Mind T2 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , SN - 9783110293852 U1 - 401.9 22/ger PY - 2012///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Psycholinguistik KW - Sprachverarbeitung KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Cognitive Linguistics KW - Frequency Effects KW - Language Processing KW - Neurolinguistics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Saliency KW - Speech Representation N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110294002 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110294002 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110294002/original ER -