The volume explores the relationship between well-studied aspects of language (constructional alternations, lexical contrasts and extensions and multi-word expr

The volume contains a collection of studies on how the analysis of corpus and psycholinguistic data reveal how linguistic knowledge is affected by the frequency

Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language learning a

The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language. A major str

Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.