31.1694, Books: The Changing English Language: Hundt, Mollin, Pfenninger (eds.)

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Subject: 31.1694, Books: The Changing English Language: Hundt, Mollin, Pfenninger (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 10:05:27
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Changing English Language: Hundt, Mollin, Pfenninger (eds.)

Title: The Changing English Language 
Subtitle: Psycholinguistic Perspectives 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/changing-english-language-psycholinguistic-perspectives?format=PB 

Editor: Marianne Hundt
Editor: Sandra Mollin
Editor: Simone E. Pfenninger

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107451728 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107451728 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107451728 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33

Abstract:

Bringing together experts from both historical linguistics and psychology,
this volume addresses core factors in language change from the perspectives of
both fields. It explores the potential (and limitations) of such an
interdisciplinary approach, covering the following factors: frequency,
salience, chunking, priming, analogy, ambiguity and acquisition. Easily
accessible, the book features chapters by psycholinguists presenting cutting
edge research on core factors and processes and develops a model of how this
may be involved in language change. Each chapter is complemented with one or
several case study in the history of the English language in which the
psycholinguistic factor in question may be argued to have played a decisive
role. Thus, for the first time, a single volume provides a platform for an
integrated exchange between psycholinguistics and historical linguistics on
the question of how language changes over time.

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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