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Usage-Based Models of Language
. Ed(S): Barlow, Michael; Kemmer, Suzanne
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paperback. This book presents a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to language use. Editor(s): Barlow, Michael; Kemmer, Suzanne. Num Pages: 384 pages, 42 b/w illus. 51 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 231 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
This book brings together papers by the foremost representatives of a range of theoretical and empirical approaches converging on a common goal: to account for language use, or how speakers actually speak and understand language. Crucial to a usage-based approach are frequency, statistical patterns, and, most generally, linguistic experience. Linguistic competence is not seen as cognitively-encapsulated and divorced from performance, but as a system continually shaped, from inception, by linguistic usage events. The authors represented here were among the first to leave behind rule-based linguistic representations in favour of constraint-based systems whose structural properties actually emerge from usage. Such emergentist ... Read more
This book brings together papers by the foremost representatives of a range of theoretical and empirical approaches converging on a common goal: to account for language use, or how speakers actually speak and understand language. Crucial to a usage-based approach are frequency, statistical patterns, and, most generally, linguistic experience. Linguistic competence is not seen as cognitively-encapsulated and divorced from performance, but as a system continually shaped, from inception, by linguistic usage events. The authors represented here were among the first to leave behind rule-based linguistic representations in favour of constraint-based systems whose structural properties actually emerge from usage. Such emergentist ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9781575862200
SKU
V9781575862200
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