Research Catalog

Title

The changing English language : psycholinguistic perspectives / edited by Marianne Hundt, Sandra Mollin, Simone E. Pfenninger.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hundt, Marianne
• Mollin, Sandra
• Pfenninger, Simone E.

Description

xix, 410 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Easily accessible, the book features chapters by psycholinguists presenting cutting edge research on core factors and processes, and develops a model of how this may be involved in language change. Each chapter is complemented with one or several case study in the history of the English language in which the psycholinguistic factor in question may be argued to have played a decisive role. Thus, for the first time, a single volume provides a platform for an integrated exchange between psycholinguistics and historical linguistics on the question of how language changes over time"--

Series Statement

Studies in English language

Uniform Title

Studies in English language.

Subject

• English language > History
• English language > Psychological aspects
• Psycholinguistics
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: language history meets psychology Marianne Hundt, Sandra Mollin and Simone E. Pfenninger; Part I. Frequency: 2. The Ecclesiastes principle in language change Harald Baayen, Fabian Tomaschek, Susanne Gahl and Michael Ramscar; 3. Frequencies in diachronic corpora and knowledge of language Martin Hilpert; Part II. Salience: 4. Salience in language usage, learning, and change Nick C. Ellis; 5. Low salience as an enabling factor in morphosyntactic change Elizabeth C. Traugott; Part III. Chunking: 6. Chunking in language usage, learning, and change: I don't know Nick C. Ellis; 7. Chunking and changes in compositionality in context Joan L. Bybee and Carol Lynn Moder; Part IV. Priming: 8. Priming and language change Martin J. Pickering and Simon Garrod; 9. From priming and processing to frequency effects and grammaticalisation? Contracted semi-modals in present-day English Christian Mair; Part V. Analogy: 10. The role of analogy in language processing and acquisition Heike Behrens; 11. The role of analogy in language change: supporting constructions Hendrik de Smet and Olga Fischer; Part VI. Ambiguity: 12. Syntactic ambiguity in real-time language processing and diachronic change Claudia Felser; 13. Ambiguity and vagueness in historical change David Denison; Part VII. Acquisition and Transmission: 14. Developing language from usage: explaining errors Elena V. M. Lieven; 15. Transferring insights from child language acquisition to diachronic change (and vice versa) Maria Jose Lopez-Cous.

Call Number

JFE 17-8634

ISBN

• 9781107086869
• 1107086868

LCCN

2017026198

OCLC

1001810482

Title

The changing English language : psycholinguistic perspectives / edited by Marianne Hundt, Sandra Mollin, Simone E. Pfenninger.

Publisher

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in English language

Studies in English language.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hundt, Marianne, editor.

Mollin, Sandra, editor.

Pfenninger, Simone E., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-8634