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Title: Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure (Typological Studies in Language) by Joan L. Bybee, Paul Hopper ISBN: 1-58811-028-1 Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.95 |
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Summary: A must-read on functionalism
Comment: This book shows a wonderful range of clearly stated frequentist and emergentist views of functional linguistics. I heartily recommend this...
Quoting the publisher's blurb for this book:
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations.
Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major principles. First, the content of people's interactions consists of a preponderance of subjective, evaluative statements, dominated by the use of pronouns, copulas and intransitive clauses. Second, the frequency with which certain items and strings of items are used has a profound influence on the way language is broken up into chunks in memory storage, the way such chunks are related to other stored material and the ease with which they are accessed to produce new utterances...
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Title: Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Joan Bybee, S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. Dressler, C. J. Ewen, R. Huddleston ISBN: 0521533783 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 27 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Probabilistic Linguistics (Bradford Books (Paperback)) by Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, Stefanie Jannedy ISBN: 0262523388 Publisher: Bradford Book Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure by Michael Tomasello ISBN: 080583429X Publisher: Lea Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought by Dedre Gentner, Susan Goldin ISBN: 0262571633 Publisher: Bradford Book Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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