Dagmar DivjakCambridge University Press, 10/10/2019EAN 9781107085756, ISBN10: 1107085756Hardcover, 340 pages, 22.9 x 15.7 x 2 cmLanguage: EnglishCognitive 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.Introduction1. Frequency of experience2. A cognitive perspective on language3. What this book is not about4. What this book is aboutPart I5. Counting occurrenceshow frequency made its way into the study of language5.1. The frequency warsthe role of frequency in nativist and nurturist frameworks5.2. Lexical statistics and word (frequency) lists5.3. Word lists in psycholinguisticsthe discovery of the (word) frequency effect5.4. Word frequency distributions and the beginning of quantitative linguistics5.5. Summary and outlook6. Measuring exposurefrequency as s linguistic game-changer6.1 Frequency and usage-based theories of language6.2. Frequency measures that have played an important role in the development of usage-based theories of language6.3. Summary and outlook7. More than frequenciestowards a probabilistic view on language7.1. Constructing a grammar from the ground up7.2. probabilistic grammar7.3. Probabilities link linguistics to information theory7.4. Summary and outlookPart II8. Committing experiences to memory8.1. What is memory?8.2. The physiology or neurobiology of memory8.3. Memory systems, memory processes and neural mechanisms of memory storage8.4. Behavioural diagnostics of memory for language8.5. Summary and outlook9. Entrenching linguistic structures9.1. Entrenchment in the mind, or in society?9.2. Three types of entrenchment9.3. How are repeated experiences recorded?9.4. Frequently asked questions9.5. Summary and outlookPart III10. The brain's attention-orienting mechanisms10.1. Grasping the phenomenonwhat is attention and what does it do?10.2. Ways of deploying attention10.3. Attention and memoryencoding and retrieving information10.4. Summary and outlook11. Saliencecapturing attention in and through language11.1. Capturing attention in languagelinguistics versus psychology11.2. Attention and salience11.3. Conclusions and outlookPart IV12. Predictingusing past experience to guide future action12.1. Predicting from stored memories12.2. Memoryless predictionBayesian predictive coding frameworks12.3. What does predictive processing mean for language cognition? 12.4. Conclusions and outlook13. Learningnavigating frequency, recency, context and contingency13.1. Backgroundlearning theory13.2 Applications to linguistics13.3. Conclusionsthe place of frequency in a learning theoretic approach to language14. Conclusions14.1. 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 grammar14.4. Looking forwardwhat lessons can we learn?14.5. By way of conclusion.
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