Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories : : What Corpus Data Do and Do Not Reveal About The Mind / / 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 a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Table of 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