Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories by Alice Blumenthal-Drame
English | 1 Nov. 2012 | ISBN: 3110293854 | 308 Pages | PDF | 21 MB
English | 1 Nov. 2012 | ISBN: 3110293854 | 308 Pages | PDF | 21 MB
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.