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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.

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The volume explores the relationship between well-studied aspects of language (constructional alternations, lexical contrasts and extensions and multi-word expressions) in a variety of languages (Dutch, English, Russian and Spanish) and their representation in cognition as mediated by frequency counts in both text and experiment. The state-of-the-art data collection (ranging from questionnaires to eye-tracking) and analysis (from simple chi-squared to random effects regression) techniques allow to draw theoretical conclusions from (mis)matches between different types of empirical data. The sis

Sociolinguistics --- Dialectology --- Frequency (Linguistics) --- Linguistic change. --- Language and languages --- Representation (Philosophy) --- Fréquence des mots --- Changement linguistique --- Variation (Linguistique) --- Représentation (Philosophie) --- Variation. --- Frequency (Linguistics). --- Representation (Philosophy). --- Fréquence des mots --- Représentation (Philosophie) --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Frequency of occurrence (Linguistics) --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Historical linguistics --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Linguistique. (Collection) --- Taalwetenschap. (Reeks) --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Corpus Linguistics. --- Experimental Linguistics. --- Frequency Effects.