Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language

Frequency Is A Critical Factor In Shaping Emerging Linguistic Systems, Be It In First Or Second Language Learning, Or In The Historical Or Social Dimensions Of Language Change. This Volume Comprises Studies That Show How And Which Patterns Are Abstracted From The Language Speakers Hear, And What Makes Them Adopt New Usages Or Constructions. The Series: Linguae & Litterae Is A Peer-reviewed Series Edited By The Frias School Of Language & Literature. Its Aim Is To Publish Empirically And Methodologically Advanced Texts In Linguistics And Literary Studies That Have Originated From Research In And Around Frias. The Focus Is On Empirical, Quantitative And Qualitative Studies On Language, And On The Comparative, Interdisciplinary Study Of Literary Phenomena In Their Cultural Context, Linguae & Litterae Also Covers Innovative Fields Of Contact And Synergy Between Modern Linguistics And Literary Studies. Experience Counts: An Introduction To Frequency Effects In Language -- Explaining Variation In Plural Marking Of German Noun Insertions In Russian Sentences -- Hesitation Placement As Evidence For Chunking -- Recency As A Factor Of Phonological Variation -- Frequency Effects In Lexical Sociolectometry Are Insubstantial -- Input Optimization -- Modeling Frequency Effects In Language Change -- Frequency And Lexical Specificity In Grammar: A Critical Review -- Frequency In Language Learning And Language Change. Edited By Heike Behrens And Stefan Pfänder. Includes Bibliographical References.