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6 - The Brain’s Attention-Orienting Mechanisms

from Part III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2019

Dagmar Divjak
Dagmar Divjak
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University of Birmingham
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Summary

In the previous chapters we have discussed how frequency of occurrence is one of the most reliable predictors of human behaviour, including producing and comprehending language. It comes as no surprise then that frequency of occurrence and co-occurrence has played a crucial role in the development of usage-based linguistics, which grounds language knowledge in exposure to usage.

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Frequency in Language
Memory, Attention and Learning
 , pp. 161 - 181
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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