33.3317, Books: Frequency in Language: Divjak

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:55:54
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Frequency in Language: Divjak

 


Title: Frequency in Language 
Subtitle: Memory, Attention and Learning 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/frequency-language-memory-attention-and-learning?format=PB 


Author: Dagmar Divjak

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107449978 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107449978 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107449978 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the
commitment to providing a characterization of the general principles governing
all aspects of human language, in a way that is informed by, and accords with,
what is known about the brain and mind from other disciplines. But what do we
know about aspects of cognition that are relevant for theories of language?
Which insights can help us build cognitive reality into our descriptive
practice and move linguistic theorizing forward? This unique study integrates
research findings from across the cognitive sciences to generate insights that
challenge the way in which frequency has been interpreted in usage-based
linguistics. It answers the fundamental questions of why frequency of
experience has the effect it has on language development, structure and
representation, and what role psychological and neurological explorations of
core cognitive processes can play in developing a cognitively more accurate
theoretical account of language.
 



Introduction: 1. Frequency of experience; 2. A cognitive perspective on
language; 3. What this book is not about; 4. What this book is about; Part I:
5. Counting occurrences: how frequency made its way into the study of
language; 5.1. The frequency wars: the role of frequency in nativist and
nurturist frameworks; 5.2. Lexical statistics and word (frequency) lists; 5.3.
Word lists in psycholinguistics: the discovery of the (word) frequency effect;
5.4. Word frequency distributions and the beginning of quantitative
linguistics; 5.5. Summary and outlook; 6. Measuring exposure: frequency as s
linguistic game-changer; 6.1 Frequency and usage-based theories of language;
6.2. Frequency measures that have played an important role in the development
of usage-based theories of language; 6.3. Summary and outlook; 7. More than
frequencies: towards a probabilistic view on language; 7.1. Constructing a
grammar from the ground up; 7.2. probabilistic grammar; 7.3. Probabilities
link linguistics to information theory; 7.4. Summary and outlook; Part II: 8.
Committing experiences to memory; 8.1. What is memory?; 8.2. The physiology or
neurobiology of memory; 8.3. Memory systems, memory processes and neural
mechanisms of memory storage; 8.4. Behavioural diagnostics of memory for
language; 8.5. Summary and outlook; 9. Entrenching linguistic structures; 9.1.
Entrenchment in the mind, or in society?; 9.2. Three types of entrenchment;
9.3. How are repeated experiences recorded?; 9.4. Frequently asked questions;
9.5. Summary and outlook; Part III: 10. The brain's attention-orienting
mechanisms; 10.1. Grasping the phenomenon: what is attention and what does it
do?; 10.2. Ways of deploying attention; 10.3. Attention and memory: encoding
and retrieving information; 10.4. Summary and outlook; 11. Salience: capturing
attention in and through language; 11.1. Capturing attention in language:
linguistics versus psychology; 11.2. Attention and salience; 11.3. Conclusions
and outlook; Part IV: 12. Predicting: using past experience to guide future
action; 12.1. Predicting from stored memories; 12.2. Memoryless prediction:
Bayesian predictive coding frameworks; 12.3. What does predictive processing
mean for language cognition? 12.4. Conclusions and outlook; 13. Learning:
navigating frequency, recency, context and contingency; 13.1. Background:
learning theory; 13.2 Applications to linguistics; 13.3. Conclusions: the
place of frequency in a learning theoretic approach to language; 14.
Conclusions; 14.1. Why do frequencies of occurrence play an important role in
usage-based linguistics?; 14.2 How can frequency be used to explain the
construction of a grammar from the ground up?; 14.3. Memory, attention and
learning in the emergence of grammar; 14.4. Looking forward: what lessons can
we learn?; 14.5. By way of conclusion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=163413




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