32.620, Books: Illuminating variation: Verhagen

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:07:07
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Illuminating variation: Verhagen

 


Title: Illuminating variation 
Subtitle: Individual differences in entrenchment of multi-word units  
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/illuminating-variation-individual-differences-in-entrenchment-of-multi-word-units 


Author: Véronique Verhagen

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933332 Pages: 243 Price: Europe EURO 33


Abstract:

This dissertation presents research into variation between and within
participants in their metalinguistic judgments about, and processing of,
multi-word sequences. It thus contributes to the development of the
usage-based framework in linguistics. Individual differences in mental
representations of language naturally follow from a usage-based approach.
Since people differ in their linguistic experiences, they are expected to
differ in the extent to which a linguistic construction is entrenched in their
mental lexicons. Furthermore, a language user gains new linguistic experiences
over time, and mental representations of language are hypothesized to change
accordingly. There is a shortage of empirical data on these types of
variation, though.

To examine inter- and intra-individual variation, two studies in this
dissertation use a test-retest design: participants performed the same
judgment task twice within the space of a few weeks. In another study,
recruiters, job-seekers, and people not (yet) looking for a job performed a
completion task, a voice onset time task, and a metalinguistic judgment task
consecutively. These groups differ in their exposure to a particular register
(job ads), which is expected to lead to differences in mental representations
of language.

Veronique Verhagen compares participant-based measures and measures based on
amalgamated data of different people (corpus-based frequencies, surprisal,
cloze probabilities) as predictors of performance in psycholinguistic tasks.
This provides insight into individual variation and the merits of going beyond
amalgamated data. The thesis demonstrates how investigations of inter- and
intra-individual variation in psycholinguistic data advance our understanding
of the dynamic character of mental representations of language.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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