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Statistical Measures for Usage‐Based Linguistics
Author(s) -
Gries Stefan Th.,
Ellis Nick C.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/lang.12119
Subject(s) - cognitive linguistics , linguistics , applied linguistics , quantitative linguistics , psycholinguistics , corpus linguistics , cognition , psychology , media linguistics , computational linguistics , contrastive linguistics , language and communication technologies , contingency , cognitive science , clinical linguistics , theoretical linguistics , computer science , language technology , natural language , comprehension approach , philosophy , neuroscience
The advent of usage‐/exemplar‐based approaches has resulted in a major change in the theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought to bear on the study of language acquisition/learning, structure, and use. In particular, methods from corpus linguistics are now frequently used to study distributional characteristics of linguistics units and what they reveal about cognitive and psycholinguistic processes. This paper surveys a range of psycholinguistic notions that are becoming ever more important in theoretical and cognitive linguistics—for example, frequency, entrenchment, dispersion, contingency, surprisal, Zipfian distributions—and current corpus‐linguistic approaches toward exploring these notions and their roles for linguistic cognition.