Author: Alice Blumenthal-Dramé
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110294001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.