The Changing English Language

Herausgeber: Hundt, Marianne; Pfenninger, Simone E.; Mollin, Sandra

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 773g
• ISBN-13: 9781107086869
• ISBN-10: 1107086868
• Artikelnr.: 47721838

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: language history meets psychology Marianne Hundt, Sandra
Mollin and Simone E. Pfenninger; Part I. Frequency: 2. The Ecclesiastes
principle in language change Harald Baayen, Fabian Tomaschek, Susanne Gahl
and Michael Ramscar; 3. Frequencies in diachronic corpora and knowledge of
language Martin Hilpert; Part II. Salience: 4. Salience in language usage,
learning, and change Nick C. Ellis; 5. Low salience as an enabling factor
in morphosyntactic change Elizabeth C. Traugott; Part III. Chunking: 6.
Chunking in language usage, learning, and change: I don't know Nick C.
Ellis; 7. Chunking and changes in compositionality in context Joan L. Bybee
and Carol Lynn Moder; Part IV. Priming: 8. Priming and language change
Martin J. Pickering and Simon Garrod; 9. From priming and processing to
frequency effects and grammaticalisation? Contracted semi-modals in
present-day English Christian Mair; Part V. Analogy: 10. The role of
analogy in language processing and acquisition Heike Behrens; 11. The role
of analogy in language change: supporting constructions Hendrik de Smet and
Olga Fischer; Part VI. Ambiguity: 12. Syntactic ambiguity in real-time
language processing and diachronic change Claudia Felser; 13. Ambiguity and
vagueness in historical change David Denison; Part VII. Acquisition and
Transmission: 14. Developing language from usage: explaining errors Elena
V. M. Lieven; 15. Transferring insights from child language acquisition to
diachronic change (and vice versa) María José López-Cous.