35.2442, Books: The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rastelli (2024)

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Subject: 35.2442, Books: The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rastelli (2024)

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Date: 06-Sep-2024
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rastelli (2024)


Title: The Frequency–Grammar Interface
Subtitle: Rules and regularities in first and second languages
Series Title: Bilingual Processing and Acquisition   20
Publication Year: 20240829
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bpa.20

Author: Stefano Rastelli
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215437 Pages: 238 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215437 Pages: 238 Price: U.K. £ 101.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215437 Pages: 238 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215437 Pages: 238 Price: Europe EURO 127.20
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246578 Pages: 238 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246578 Pages: 238 Price: U.K. £ 101.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246578 Pages: 238 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Abstract:

Speakers and learners, based on memory and experience, implicitly know
that certain language elements naturally pair together. However, they
also understand, through abstract and frequency-independent
categories, why some combinations are possible and others are not. The
frequency-grammar interface (FGI) bridges these two types of
information in human cognition. Due to this interface, the sediment of
statistical calculations over the order, distribution, and
associations of items (the regularities) and the computation over the
abstract principles that allow these items to join together (the
rules) are brought together in a speaker’s competence, feeding into
one another and eventually becoming superposed. In this volume, it is
argued that a specific subset of both first and second language
grammar (termed ‘combinatorial grammar’) is both innate and learned.
While not derived from language usage, combinatorial grammar is
continuously recalibrated by usage throughout a speaker’s life. In the
domain of combinatorial grammar, both generative and usage-based
theories are correct, each shedding light on just one component of the
two that are necessary for any language to function: rules and
regularities.

Written In: English (eng)



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