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This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the correlation between corpus-extracted usage data and mental entrenchment, the author operationalises entrenchment in Gestalt psychological terms and conducts a series of behavioural and neuroimaging experiments.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- English language --- Discourse analysis. --- Dialectology -- Methodology. --- Dialectology. --- Language and languages -- Variation. --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Language --- Philology & Linguistics --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Germanic languages --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Frequency Effects. --- Language Processing. --- Neurolinguistics. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Saliency. --- Speech Representation.