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 and conducts a series of behavioural and neuroimaging experiments.

About the author

Alice Blumenthal-Dramé, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Blumenthal-Dramé
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9783110293852
• ISBN: 978-3-11-029385-2
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 22 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; Topics in English Linguistics; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics