Frequency effects in language representation

The volume explores the relationship between well-studied aspects of language (constructional alternations, lexical contrasts and extensions and multi-word expressions) in a variety of languages (Dutch, English, Russian and Spanish) and their representation in cognition as mediated by frequency counts in both text and experiment. The state-of-the-art data collection (ranging from questionnaires to eye-tracking) and analysis (from simple chi-squared to random effects regression) techniques allow to draw theoretical conclusions from (mis)matches between different types of empirical data. The sis

Front matter --; Preface --; Table of contents --; Introduction /; Things going unnoticed - A usage-based analysis of go-constructions /; The Locative Alternation and the Russian 'empty' prefixes: A case study of the verb gruzit' 'load' /; Alternation biases in corpora vs. picture description experiments: DO-biased and PD-biased verbs in the Dutch dative alternation /; A unified lexicon and grammar? Compositional and non-compositional phrases in the lexicon /; Measuring Mental Entrenchment of Phrases with Perceptual Identification, Familiarity Ratings, and Corpus Frequency Statistics /; Figurative extensions of word meaning: How do corpus data and intuition match up? /; Conversion and the lexicon: Comparing evidence from corpora and experimentation /; As lexical as it gets: The role of co-occurrence of antonyms in a visual lexical decision experiment /; Subject index / Divjak, Dagmar --; Schönefeld, Doris --; Sokolova, Svetlana / Lyashevskaya, Olga / Janda, Laura A. --; Colleman, Timothy / Bernolet, Sarah --; Snider, Neal / Arnon, Inbal --; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine / Berant, Jonathan / Edelman, Shimon --; Littlemore, Jeannette / MacArthur, Fiona --; Teddiman, Laura --; Van de Weijer, Joost / Paradis, Carita / Willners, Caroline / Lindgren, Magnus --