Blumenthal-Dramé Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories

What Corpus Data Do and Do not Revealabout the Mind
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-029400-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 83, 306 Seiten

Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the correlation between corpus-extracted usage data and mental entrenchment, the author operationalises entrenchment in Gestalt psychological terms and conducts a series of behavioural and neuroimaging experiments.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students with an Interest in the Field of Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Neurolinguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;Conventions;13
3;Tables;15
4;Figures;19
5;1 Introduction and overview;25
6;2 Entrenchment in usage-based theories;28
6.1;2.1 Entrenchment in usage-based constructionist approaches;30
6.2;2.2 Entrenchment and usage-based assumptions about language representation and processing;34
6.3;2.3 Entrenchment in usage-based theories of language acquisition;37
6.4;2.4 Entrenchment in emergentist theories of language phylogeny;39
6.5;2.5 Entrenchment in usage-based theories of language change;41
6.6;2.6 Entrenchment in related frameworks;44
6.7;2.7 Summary and outlook: The epistemological status of entrenchment in usage-based frameworks;47
7;3 The cognitive realism of usage-based generalizations, with a special focus on the relationship between token frequencies and entrenchment;51
7.1;3.1 The assumed link between collective usage and individual representation;52
7.2;3.2 Against the psychological realism of corpus-derived claims;57
7.3;3.3 In support of the potential psychological realism of corpus-derived claims;68
7.3.1;3.3.1 Neuroplasticity;68
7.3.2;3.3.2 Experimental research on token frequency effects in multi-word sequences;71
7.3.3;3.3.3 Psycholinguistic research on the entrenchment of multiword sequences;74
7.3.4;3.3.4 Patholinguistic data showing selective dissociations between holistic versus novel sequences of morphemes;76
7.3.5;3.3.5 Neuroimaging studies supporting the idea of a neurocognitive split between holistic and compositional modules;81
7.4;3.4 Conclusion: Can we reasonably expect corpora to predict entrenchment in the mind?;85
8;4 Operationalizing entrenchment;90
8.1;4.1 Defining entrenchment;91
8.2;4.2 Assessing the psychological realism of a statement in experimental terms;93
8.3;4.3 Sources of inspiration;96
8.3.1;4.3.1 Gestalt psychology;97
8.3.1.1;4.3.1.1 Why seek inspiration from non-linguistic lines of research?;97
8.3.1.2;4.3.1.2 What makes a chunk in Gestalt psychology?;100
8.3.2;4.3.2 The masked priming paradigm;109
8.3.3;4.3.3 Frequency effects in English derivatives;117
8.3.4;4.3.4 Parametric studies on word frequency effects;125
8.4;4.4 Operationalizing Entrenchment;128
9;5 Experimental design;133
9.1;5.1 Stimuli;133
9.1.1;5.1.1 Stimuli for the masked priming fMRI study;133
9.1.1.1;5.1.1.1 Stimuli for the main conditions;133
9.1.1.2;5.1.1.2 Stimuli for the ‘no ’ -conditions;140
9.1.1.3;5.1.1.3 Stimuli for the control conditions;141
9.1.2;5.1.2 Stimuli for the memory experiment;142
9.2;5.2 Experimental procedures;143
9.2.1;5.2.1 Experimental procedure for the masked priming fMRI studies;143
9.2.2;5.2.2 Experimental procedure for the memory task;147
10;6 Behavioural data analysis;148
10.1;6.1 Main conditions;148
10.1.1;6.1.1 General method;148
10.1.2;6.1.2 Simple linear mixed-effects regression analyses;148
10.1.3;6.1.3 Multiple mixed-effects regression analyses;156
10.1.3.1;6.1.3.1 Introductory remarks on methodology;156
10.1.3.2;6.1.3.2 Multiple regression results for part-to-whole priming;157
10.1.3.3;6.1.3.3 Multiple regression results for whole-to-part priming;158
10.2;6.2 Behavioural analyses for the supplementary experiments;162
10.2.1;6.2.1 Mixed-effects regression analyses for jumbled target priming;162
10.2.2;6.2.2 Behavioural analyses for the comparison with monomorphemic controls;167
10.2.3;6.2.3 Behavioural analyses for the memory task;168
10.3;6.3 Conclusions;171
11;7 Neuroimaging Data Analysis;182
11.1;7.1 Introductory remarks;182
11.2;7.2 Statistical Parametric Imaging analysis;183
11.2.1;7.2.1 Imaging Parameters;183
11.2.2;7.2.2 fMRI data analysis;184
11.2.3;7.2.3 Preprocessing;184
11.2.4;7.2.4 First-level analysis;184
11.3;7.3 Results;185
11.3.1;7.3.1 Second-level analyses;185
11.3.2;7.3.2 Results for the part-to-whole priming task;185
11.3.3;7.3.3 Results for the whole-to-part priming task;193
11.3.4;7.3.4 Results for the jumbled target priming task;198
11.3.5;7.3.5 Conjunction analysis for the main conditions;198
11.4;7.4 Conclusion;203
12;8 Summary and conclusion;210
12.1;8.1 Summary: Entrenchment in usage-based theories;210
12.1.1;8.1.1 Research rationale and questions;210
12.1.2;8.1.2 Operationalizing entrenchment;213
12.1.3;8.1.3 Behavioural results;215
12.1.4;8.1.4 fMRI Results;218
12.2;8.2 Some further theoretical implications;222
12.3;8.3 The corpus-to-cognition principle: Towards more fine-grained correlations between corpus and cognitive data;229
12.4;8.4 Outlook;235
13;References;239
14;Appendix;279
15;Index;302

Über Autor(innen)

Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice
Alice Blumenthal-Dramé, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.