The mental corpus : how language is represented in the mind / John R. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, John R., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurolinguistics.

Psycholinguistics.

Language and languages--Physiological aspects.

Language and languages.

Language awareness.

Language acquisition--Physiological aspects.

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Taylor argues that an individual's knowledge of a language is a repository of memories. Similarities between items lead to generalisations then used to generate new expressions. He makes a compelling contribution to understanding language and the operations of the mind.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; 1. Conceptualizing language; E-language and I-language; Studying E-language-not such a simple matter!; Corpora and their representativeness; The BNC and linguistic experience; The World Wide Web: a "fabulous linguists' playground"; 2. The dictionary and the grammar book: the generative model of linguistic knowledge; A rule-based approach to linguistic knowledge; Subcategorization; Selectional restrictions; Agreement features; The generative model in relation to data; Explain me; The lexicon; Compounds; Derived words; Syntactic constructions; Compositionality; In conclusion

3. Words and their behaviourLexical categories; Unique distribution of words; Laps and bosoms; Fun; Pluralia tantum; Much; Verbs and their subcategorization; Zero-complements; Defective verbs; In conclusion; 4. Idioms; Semantic idioms; Idiom variability; Allusions to idioms; Syntactic idioms; The more the merrier; Him write a novel!?; What about me?; That idiot of a man; That'll teach you!; What's it doing raining?; Phrasal idioms; Minor (ir)regularities; 5. Speaking idiomatically; Language and context of use; Words and collocations; Learning to speak idiomatically; A case-study: X-minded

6. ConstructionsCognitive Grammar: some basic concepts; Constructions; Constructions or rules?; Applying a rule: What kind of process is it?; Constructions and the autonomy of syntax; Collostructional analysis; Acquisition; Constructions all the way up?; 7. Frequency; Chomsky on frequency: the Dayton Ohio argument; Verb complements; Words; Collocations (again); Phonology; Ambiguity resolution and garden path sentences; Productivity; Subjective estimates of frequency; In conclusion; 8. Skewed frequencies as a design feature of language; Skewed frequencies as an emergent property of language

MarkednessCategorization; Skewed frequency as a design feature of language; In conclusion; 9. Learning from input; Phoneme acquisition; Statistical learning; Do listeners notice input features?; The recency effect; Recency and micro-learning; In conclusion; 10. Polysemy; How many meanings?; Opening and cutting; lumping and splitting; Relatedness of meanings; A single linguistic form?; The story of over; Polysemy and idealized cognitive models of language; Word meanings; In conclusion; 11. Creativity and innovation; Creativity; Creativity and innovation; Language change; Being busy

Explain meIdioms and their usage range: the case of all over; In conclusion; 12. Blending; Blending theory; Word blending; Phrasal blending; Keeping an eye out; Ever since I can remember; Time and (time) again; Being as how; I think that's fair to say; The most beautifulest girl in the world; Explain me this; The blending of words and constructions; In conclusion; 13. The mental corpus; References; Subject index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Index of names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-929081-4

0-19-162358-X

1-280-77025-2

9786613681027

OCLC:

795706835