Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories

What Corpus Data Do and Do Not Reveal About The Mind

von Alice Blumenthal-Dramé

282 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
• ISBN: 9783110293852
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2012
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
• Verlag: de Gruyter Mouton