The Frequency-Grammar Interface : Rules and Regularities in First and Second Languages.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rastelli, Stefano.

Series:

Bilingual Processing and Acquisition Series

Bilingual Processing and Acquisition Series ; v.20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frequency (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Summary:

In this volume, it is argued that a specific aspect of first and second language grammar (termed 'combinatorial grammar') is both innate and learned. This aspect is continuously recalibrated by usage throughout a speaker's life. In the domain of combinatorial grammar, both generative and usage-based theories can shed light on these issues.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 The frequency-grammar interface

1.1 What's in this chapter

1.2 What the FGI is and what it does

1.3 Interaction at the FGI and its consequences

1.4 The theory of snowflakes

1.5 The FGI amid a tidal change in language theory

1.6 The FGI and the 'three factors in language design'

1.7 The reunification of the discipline

1.8 The FGI is an interface

1.9 Statistical information concerns regularities in the input

1.10 Grammatical information concerns abstract labels

1.11 Two examples of abstract labels in Italian

1.12 Statistical information reprograms grammatical information

1.13 The neural basis of reprogramming the grammar

1.14 The information the FGI deals with is redundant

1.15 The information the FGI deals with is implicit

1.16 Evidence for the FGI

1.16.1 Patterns, rules, and speakers' expectations

1.16.2 The electrophysiology of language predictions

1.16.3 Negativities appearing within the 400-600 ms window from the critical word onset

1.16.4 The sustained anterior negativity indexes the cognitive costs of expectations

1.16.5 Expectations are formed upon a speaker's repeated exposure and language use

1.17 Evidence for the FGI

1.18 To sum up

Chapter 2 The background

2.1 What's in this chapter

2.2 Resetting the scene

2.3 The 'words and rules' paradigm in the 1990s and its evolution

2.4 Unifying statistics and grammar

2.5 Storage and computation within the faculty of language

2.6 The FL hosts a separate statistical component

2.7 Three ways for frequency and grammar to coexist in the FL

2.8 The tolerance principle

2.9 Nature meets nurture

2.10 Necessity and probability in language

2.11 Non-generative theories concerning the frequency-grammar interaction.

2.12 Coexistence and simultaneity of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships

2.13 Entrenchment and representational redundancy in cognitive linguistics

2.14 Entrenchment in diachrony

2.15 Statistics and the grammar in the acquisition of an artificial language

2.16 Sequence-based and rule-based dependencies in artificial languages

2.17 The role of Broca's area in sequential and nonsequential processing

2.18 Type-frequency and grammatical learning

2.19 'Good-enough' processing and syntactic predictions

2.20 Frequency and grammar in language acquisition

2.21 Statistical and grammatical learning in first language acquisition theories

2.22 The starting big approach

2.23 The traceback method

2.24 SL and GL in second language acquisition (SLA) theories

2.25 The developmental shift in ERP studies

2.26 Regularity effects in word naming and morphosyntax

2.27 Logan's instance theory of automatization

2.28 The dual process model

2.29 Sentence grammar and thetical grammar

2.30 To sum up

Chapter 3 Rules and regularities

3.1 What's in this chapter

3.2 A role for rules

3.3 Asymmetric merge

3.4 Combine/Concatenation and label

3.5 Where is the labeler in a sentence and when does it do its job in the derivation?

3.6 Which labels are processed at the FGI?

3.7 Labels and frequency

3.8 An example of frequency-independent labeling

3.9 Auxiliary selection from a regularity-driven perspective

3.10 Regularities do not concern isolated items

3.11 Statistical information features two kinds of regularity

3.12 The statistical informationin absentia concerns patterns-of-usage

3.13 Statistical information is supported by proceduralmemory

3.14 Linear statistical information

3.15 Vertical statistical information

3.16 Asymmetric chunks and contingency learning.

3.17 Related and unrelated contingency

3.18 To sum up

Chapter 4 At the interface

4.1 What's in this chapter

4.2 Statistical and grammatical learning at the FGI

4.3 A four-step operation

4.3.1 STEP 1

4.3.2 STEP 2

4.3.3 STEP 3

4.3.4 STEP 4

4.4 Labeling takes time

4.5 Why variation sets?

4.6 Variation sets in language acquisition

4.7 Variation sets and frequent frames

4.8 Theoretical implications for the use of variation sets

4.9 Variation sets and contingency learning of asymmetric chunks are a perfect match

4.10 To sum up

Chapter 5 The domain

5.1 What's in this chapter

5.2 Only combinatorial grammar is regular

5.3 Examples of combinatorial grammar

5.4 Auxiliary selection in Italian

5.5 Adjective position in French

5.6 Prepositions in Spanish and English

5.7 Aspectual coercion in English

5.8 Non-combinatorial grammar

5.8.1 Empty categories

5.8.2 Constraints

5.8.3 Phenomena at the interfaces

5.9 Examples of non-combinatorial grammar

5.9.1 Null subjects in pro-drop languages

5.9.2 Grammatical aspect

5.10 To sum up

Chapter 6 The frequency grammar interface in second language acquisition

6.1 What's in this chapter

6.2 The Discontinuity Model

6.3 The shift between statistical and grammatical learning is ordered, but not gradual

6.4 SLA facit saltus (takes a leap)

6.5 SL triggers GL in SLA

6.6 The discontinuous acquisition of double auxiliary predicates by L2 Italian learners

6.7 SL precedes GL in SLA

6.8 Two predictions for the learnability of L2 morphosyntax

6.9 The intra-language

6.10 The study of L2 intra-language with ΔP

6.11 ΔP longitudinal scores in individual learner data

6.12 To sum up

Chapter 7 Superposition of frequency and grammar in a second language

7.1 What's in this chapter

7.2 Recap

7.3 Recap.

7.4 Can statistical and grammatical learning be distinguished experimentally?

7.5 Quasi-superposition in L2 acquisition

7.6 Eye-tracking

7.7 Target-feature and motivation for the study

7.8 Background

7.9 The processing of Aux in L2 Italian

7.9.1 Optimal processing of Aux in L2 Italian

7.9.2 Non-optimal processing of Aux in L2 Italian

7.10 The target feature and the critical zones for reading pattern analysis

7.11 Research questions

7.12 Methods

7.12.1 Participants

7.12.2 Materials and design

7.12.3 Apparatus

7.12.4 Procedure

7.12.5 Reading measures

7.12.6 Data analysis and experimental variables

7.13 Results

7.13.1 Accuracy and reaction time

A. First-pass measures

B. Second pass measures (rereading and regression probability)

7.13.2 Reading patterns

7.14 Discussion

7.14.1 Summary of findings

7.14.2 Responses to research questions

7.14.3 Limitations

7.15 Conclusions

Appendix. Experimental sentences in one token-set

Chapter 8 Summary and implications

8.1 The FGI in short

8.2 Combinatorial grammar

8.3 Contingency learning connects frequency and grammar

8.4 Statistics access grammar

8.5 An idea of grammar

8.6 Both are right

8.7 Superposition

8.8 The knowability issue and superpositionrules

8.9 The bottom line

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789027246578

OCLC:

1453196827