Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories: What Corpus Data Do and Do Not Reveal about the Mind

By Alice Blumenthal-Dramé

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110293854
• ISBN13: 9783110293852
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary