Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition : : Defining the Limits of Frequency as an Explanatory Concept / / ed. by Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gülzow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Anđelković, Darinka,; Bentzen, Kristine,; Bohnacker, Ute,; Bordag, Denisa,; Budwig, Nancy,; Crain, Stephen,; Demuth, Katherine,; Djurkovic, Milja,; Gagarina, Natalia,; Gülzow, Insa,; Kauschke, Christina,; Klann-Delius, Gisela,; Kupisch, Tanja,; Mattausch, Jason,; Roeper, Tom,; Savić, Maja,; Tesan, Graciela,; Thornton, Rosalind,; Uziel-Karl, Sigal,; Westergaard, Marit,; Yang, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Gagarina, Natalia,; Gülzow, Insa,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 32
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Other title: I-VI --; Introducing the frequency debate in studies of language acquisition --; Opening statement --; What frequency can do and what it can't --; The acquisition of determiners --; The role of input frequency in article acquisition in early child Swedish --; Testing the effects of frequency on the rate of learning: Determiner use in early French, German and Italian --; Input frequencies across development --; The acquisition of non-agent subjects in child Hebrew: The role of input --; The role of input frequency in early language production: Children’s usage of Serbian prepositions --; Characteristics of maternal input in relation to vocabulary development in children learning German --; What happens when adults often use infinitives? --; Frequency mismatches between caregiver input and child language --; Structural versus frequency effects in L1 acquisition of the passive and impersonal in Serbian --; The (non-) effect of input frequency on the acquisition of word order in Norwegian embedded clauses --; Factors determining the acquisition of animacy in Czech --; (Non-)Frequentist perspectives within UG --; A note on acquisition in frequency-based accounts of binding phenomena --; Principles, parameters and probabilities --; Comments --; The role of frequency in language acquisition --; Counting grammars --; List of contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110977905; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110277135; 9783110277197; 9783110277166; 9783110276909
• ISSN: 1861-4248
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110977905
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gülzow.

The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language. A major strength of the book is that the role of input frequency in the acquisition process is evaluated in a large variety of languages, topics and the two major theoretical frameworks: UG-based and usage-based accounts. While most papers report a clear frequency effect, different factors that may be interacting with pure statistical effects are critically assessed. An introductory statement is made by Thomas Roeper who calls for caution as he identifies frequency as a non-coherent concept and argues for a precise definition of what can and cannot be explained by statistical effects.