{"product_id":"frequency-in-language-memory-attention-and-learning-paperback-9781107449978","title":"Frequency in Language; Memory, Attention and Learning (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107449978","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrequency in Language\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMemory, Attention and Learning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRe-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDagmar Divjak (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107449978, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e341 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, 0.498 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This eloquently written book brings to the front a foundational property of human language, our sensitivity to the frequency distribution of linguistic items. The work further discusses how this property serves as the atomistic component of several key cognitive abilities, making the book an essential read for a modern, probability-based understanding of human cognition.' Neguine Rezaii, Harvard Medical School\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human language, in a way that is informed by, and accords with, what is known about the brain and mind from other disciplines. But what do we know about aspects of cognition that are relevant for theories of language? Which insights can help us build cognitive reality into our descriptive practice and move linguistic theorizing forward? This unique study integrates research findings from across the cognitive sciences to generate insights that challenge the way in which frequency has been interpreted in usage-based linguistics. It answers the fundamental questions of why frequency of experience has the effect it has on language development, structure and representation, and what role psychological and neurological explorations of core cognitive processes can play in developing a cognitively more accurate theoretical account of language.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: 1. Frequency of experience\u003cbr\u003e 2. A cognitive perspective on language\u003cbr\u003e 3. What this book is not about\u003cbr\u003e 4. What this book is about\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 5. Counting occurrences: how frequency made its way into the study of language\u003cbr\u003e 5.1. The frequency wars: the role of frequency in nativist and nurturist frameworks\u003cbr\u003e 5.2. Lexical statistics and word (frequency) lists\u003cbr\u003e 5.3. Word lists in psycholinguistics: the discovery of the (word) frequency effect\u003cbr\u003e 5.4. Word frequency distributions and the beginning of quantitative linguistics\u003cbr\u003e 5.5. Summary and outlook\u003cbr\u003e 6. Measuring exposure: frequency as s linguistic game-changer\u003cbr\u003e 6.1 Frequency and usage-based theories of language\u003cbr\u003e 6.2. Frequency measures that have played an important role in the development of usage-based theories of language\u003cbr\u003e 6.3. Summary and outlook\u003cbr\u003e 7. More than frequencies: towards a probabilistic view on language\u003cbr\u003e 7.1. Constructing a grammar from the ground up\u003cbr\u003e 7.2. probabilistic grammar\u003cbr\u003e 7.3. Probabilities link linguistics to information theory\u003cbr\u003e 7.4. Summary and outlook\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 8. Committing experiences to memory\u003cbr\u003e 8.1. What is memory?\u003cbr\u003e 8.2. The physiology or neurobiology of memory\u003cbr\u003e 8.3. Memory systems, memory processes and neural mechanisms of memory storage\u003cbr\u003e 8.4. Behavioural diagnostics of memory for language\u003cbr\u003e 8.5. Summary and outlook\u003cbr\u003e 9. Entrenching linguistic structures\u003cbr\u003e 9.1. Entrenchment in the mind, or in society?\u003cbr\u003e 9.2. Three types of entrenchment\u003cbr\u003e 9.3. How are repeated experiences recorded?\u003cbr\u003e 9.4. Frequently asked questions\u003cbr\u003e 9.5. Summary and outlook\u003cbr\u003e Part III: 10. The brain's attention-orienting mechanisms\u003cbr\u003e 10.1. Grasping the phenomenon: what is attention and what does it do?\u003cbr\u003e 10.2. Ways of deploying attention\u003cbr\u003e 10.3. Attention and memory: encoding and retrieving information\u003cbr\u003e 10.4. Summary and outlook\u003cbr\u003e 11. Salience: capturing attention in and through language\u003cbr\u003e 11.1. Capturing attention in language: linguistics versus psychology\u003cbr\u003e 11.2. Attention and salience\u003cbr\u003e 11.3. Conclusions and outlook\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: 12. Predicting: using past experience to guide future action\u003cbr\u003e 12.1. Predicting from stored memories\u003cbr\u003e 12.2. Memoryless prediction: Bayesian predictive coding frameworks\u003cbr\u003e 12.3. What does predictive processing mean for language cognition? 12.4. Conclusions and outlook\u003cbr\u003e 13. Learning: navigating frequency, recency, context and contingency\u003cbr\u003e 13.1. Background: learning theory\u003cbr\u003e 13.2 Applications to linguistics\u003cbr\u003e 13.3. Conclusions: the place of frequency in a learning theoretic approach to language\u003cbr\u003e 14. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e 14.1. Why do frequencies of occurrence play an important role in usage-based linguistics?\u003cbr\u003e 14.2 How can frequency be used to explain the construction of a grammar from the ground up?\u003cbr\u003e 14.3. Memory, attention and learning in the emergence of grammar\u003cbr\u003e 14.4. Looking forward: what lessons can we learn?\u003cbr\u003e 14.5. 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