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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 83
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110294002; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110288995; 9783110288902; 9783110288896
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110294002
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alice Blumenthal-Dramé.

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.