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Entrenchment in usage-based theories : what corpus data do and do not reveal about the mind /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2012.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
83. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 283 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110294002 3110294001 3110293854 9783110293852 1299719554 9781299719552 |
| ISSN: | 1434-3452 ; |