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Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing

Author : Stefan Th. Gries

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 11,40 MB

Release : 2012-08-31

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110274051

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Book Description

The volume contains a collection of studies on how the analysis of corpus and psycholinguistic data reveal how linguistic knowledge is affected by the frequency of linguistic elements/stimuli. The studies explore a wide range of phenomena , from phonological reduction processes and palatalization to morphological productivity, diachronic change, adjective preposition constructions, auxiliary omission, and multi-word units. The languages studied are Spanish and artificial languages, Russian, Dutch, and English. The sister volume focuses on language representation.



Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition

Author : Insa Gülzow

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 426 pages

File Size : 37,53 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9783110196719

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The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language. A major strength of the book is that the role of input frequency in the acquisition process is evaluated in a large variety of languages, topics and the two major theoretical frameworks: UG-based and usage-based accounts. While most papers report a clear frequency effect, different factors that may be interacting with pure statistical effects are critically assessed. An introductory statement is made by Thomas Roeper who calls for caution as he identifies frequency as a non-coherent concept and argues for a precise definition of what can and cannot be explained by statistical effects.



Frequency Effects in Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Author : Karin Madlener

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 330 pages

File Size : 43,17 MB

Release : 2015-10

Category : English language

ISBN : 9783110405545

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Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods, and tests these in the second language classroom context.



The Multilingual Mind

Author : Michael Sharwood Smith

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 429 pages

File Size : 44,80 MB

Release : 2014-02-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1107729602

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Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and view the world. Most people on this planet are in some sense multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds. The mental architecture proposed in this volume permits research across many domains in cognitive science to be integrated and explored within one explanatory framework, recasting compatible insights and findings in terms of a common set of terms and concepts. The MOGUL framework has already proven effective for shedding light on the relationship between processing and learning, metalinguistic knowledge, consciousness, optionality, crosslinguistic influence, the initial state, 'UG access', ultimate attainment, input enhancement, and even language instruction. This groundbreaking work will be essential reading for linguists working in language acquisition, multilingualism, and language processing, as well as for those working in related areas of psychology, neurology and cognitive science.



Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition

Author : Insa Gülzow

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 425 pages

File Size : 40,7 MB

Release : 2011-05-03

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110977907

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Book Description

The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language. A major strength of the book is that the role of input frequency in the acquisition process is evaluated in a large variety of languages, topics and the two major theoretical frameworks: UG-based and usage-based accounts. While most papers report a clear frequency effect, different factors that may be interacting with pure statistical effects are critically assessed. An introductory statement is made by Thomas Roeper who calls for caution as he identifies frequency as a non-coherent concept and argues for a precise definition of what can and cannot be explained by statistical effects.



Experience Counts

Author : Heike Behrens

Publisher : ISSN

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 37,78 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Frequency

ISBN : 9783110343427

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Book Description

Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language learning and language change. The research presented in this volume challenges established models of linguistic representation. Instead of learning and processing language compositionally, larger units and co-occurence relations are at work. The main point taken by the authors is that by studying the effect of distributional patterns and changes in such patterns we can establish a unified framework that explains the dynamics of language systems with a limited set of processing factors.



Second Language Speech Learning

Author : Ratree Wayland

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 537 pages

File Size : 20,55 MB

Release : 2021-02-04

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1108882366

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Book Description

Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.



Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning

Author : Edith Kaan

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 35,82 MB

Release : 2021-09-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027258945

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Book Description

There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume presents a collection of current research, insights, and directions regarding the role of prediction in L2 processing and learning. The contributions in this volume specifically address how different (L1-based) theoretical models of prediction apply to or may be expanded to account for L2 processing, report new insights on factors (linguistic, cognitive, social) that modulate L2 users’ engagement in prediction, and discuss the functions that prediction may or may not serve in L2 processing and learning. Taken together, this volume illustrates various fruitful approaches to investigating and accounting for differences in predictive processing within and across individuals, as well as across populations.



Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language

Author : Heike Behrens

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 13,37 MB

Release : 2016-02-22

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110384590

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Book Description

Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language learning and language change. The research presented in this volume challenges established models of linguistic representation. Instead of learning and processing language compositionally, larger units and co-occurence relations are at work. The main point taken by the authors is that by studying the effect of distributional patterns and changes in such patterns we can establish a unified framework that explains the dynamics of language systems with a limited set of processing factors.



Language Education and Emotions

Author : Mathea Simons

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 38,87 MB

Release : 2020-10-08

Category : Education

ISBN : 1000200469

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Language Education and Emotions presents innovative, empirical research into the influence of emotions and affective factors in language education, both in L1 and in foreign language education. It offers a comprehensive overview of studies authored and co-authored by researchers from all over the world. The volume opens and ends with "backbone" contributions by two of the discipline’s most reputed scholars: Jane Arnold (Spain) and Jean-Marc Dewaele (United Kingdom). This book broadens our understanding of emotions, including well-known concepts such as foreign language anxiety as well as addressing the emotions that have only recently received scientific attention, driven by the positive psychology movement. Chapters explore emotions from the perspective of the language learner and the language teacher, and in relation to educational processes. A number of contributions deal with traditional, school-based contexts, whereas others study new settings of foreign language education such as migration. The book paints a picture of the broad scale of approaches used to study this topic and offers new and relevant insights for the field of language education and emotions. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the field of language education, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.