Frequency Effects in Language. / Volume 2, : Frequency Effects in Language Representation / / ed. by Dagmar Divjak, Stefan Th. Gries.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Arnon, Inbal,; Berant, Jonathan,; Bernolet, Sarah,; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine,; Colleman, Timothy,; Divjak, Dagmar,; Edelman, Shimon,; Janda, Laura A.,; Lindgren, Magnus,; Littlemore, Jeannette,; Lyashevskaya, Olga,; MacArthur, Fiona,; Paradis, Carita,; Schönefeld, Doris,; Snider, Neal,; Sokolova, Svetlana,; Teddiman, Laura,; Van de Weijer, Joost,; Willners, Caroline,
• HerausgeberIn: Divjak, Dagmar,; Gries, Stefan Th.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 244.2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Things going unnoticed – A usage-based analysis of go-constructions -- The Locative Alternation and the Russian ‘empty’ prefixes: A case study of the verb gruzit’ ‘load’ -- Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation -- A unified lexicon and grammar? Compositional and non-compositional phrases in the lexicon -- Measuring Mental Entrenchment of Phrases with Perceptual Identification, Familiarity Ratings, and Corpus Frequency Statistics -- Figurative extensions of word meaning: How do corpus data and intuition match up? -- Conversion and the lexicon: Comparing evidence from corpora and experimentation -- As lexical as it gets: The role of co-occurrence of antonyms in a visual lexical decision experiment -- Subject index