The Changing English Language
Psycholinguistic Perspectives
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Part of Studies in English Language
- Editors:
- Marianne Hundt, Universität Zürich
- Sandra Mollin, Universität Heidelberg
- Simone E. Pfenninger, Universität Salzburg
- Date Published: April 2020
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107451728
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Bringing together experts from both historical linguistics and psychology, this volume addresses core factors in language change from the perspectives of both fields. It explores the potential (and limitations) of such an interdisciplinary approach, covering the following factors: frequency, salience, chunking, priming, analogy, ambiguity and acquisition. 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.
Read more- Integrates, for the first time, psycholinguistics and historical linguistics, written by experts in both fields
- Readers from both disciplines are able to appreciate the potential of the respective fields for their own research, whilst acquiring a better grasp of the limitations of the interdisciplinary approach
- Detailed information on factors in language change from a psycholinguistic perspective are provided in one single volume
Reviews & endorsements
'This innovative collection sketches what a long overdue cooperation of psycholinguistics and language change could look like. By systematically investigating key psycholinguistic factors from both perspectives, it closes a striking gap in historical linguistics.' Lieselotte Anderwald, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
See more reviews'This is an admirable example of how a sophisticated analysis of a narrowly defined and partly even invisible phenomenon can reveal deep insights into language acquisition, with wide-ranging consequences for syntactic theory. As such, it is also a demonstration of how acquisition research can inform grammatical theory. Beautifully written, this book is therefore highly recommended to a readership not only interested in language acquisition but also in syntactic theory.' Jürgen Meisel, Universität Hamburg
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- Date Published: April 2020
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107451728
- dimensions: 230 x 152 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- contains: 26 b/w illus. 24 tables
- availability: Available
Table of 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) María José López-Cous.
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