The Frequency-Grammar Interface Rules and regularities in first and second languages Stefano Rastelli

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rastelli, Stefano, author.

Series:

Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 2352-0531 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism.

Psycholinguistics.

Syntax.

Theoretical linguistics.

Local Subjects:

Multilingualism.

Psycholinguistics.

Syntax.

Theoretical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024

Summary:

Speakers and learners, based on memory and experience, implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together. However, they also understand, through abstract and frequency-independent categories, why some combinations are possible and others are not. The frequency-grammar interface (FGI) bridges these two types of information in human cognition. Due to this interface, the sediment of statistical calculations over the order, distribution, and associations of items (the regularities) and the computation over the abstract principles that allow these items to join together (the rules) are brought together in a speaker's competence, feeding into one another and eventually becoming superposed. In this volume, it is argued that a specific subset of both first and second language grammar (termed 'combinatorial grammar') is both innate and learned. While not derived from language usage, combinatorial grammar is continuously recalibrated by usage throughout a speaker's life. In the domain of combinatorial grammar, both generative and usage-based theories are correct, each shedding light on just one component of the two that are necessary for any language to function: rules and regularities. Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1. The frequency-grammar interface

Chapter 2. The background

Chapter 3. Rules and regularities

Chapter 4. At the interface

Chapter 5. The domain

Chapter 6. The frequency grammar interface in second language acquisition

Chapter 7. Superposition of frequency and grammar in a second language

Chapter 8. Summary and implications

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027246578

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.