The frequency-grammar interface

• Verfasst von: Rastelli, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The frequency-grammar interface
• Titelzusatz: rules and regularities in first and second languages
• Verf.angabe: Stefano Rastelli (University of Pavia)
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xii, 226 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Diagramme
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Bilingual processing and acquisition ; volume 20
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-90-272-1543-7
• Schlagwörter: (s)Fremdsprachenlernen / (s)Ungesteuerter Zweitsprachenerwerb / (s)Grammatik
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Rastelli, Stefano: Frequency-grammar interface. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024
• K10plus-PPN: 1902424298

Abstract

"Speakers and learners implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together based on memory and experience. But they also know, 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. Because of this interface, the sediment of a statistical calculation 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, then feed into one another, and become superposed. In this volume, it is argued that a specific aspect of both first and second language grammar (termed 'combinatorial grammar') is both innate and learned. While this aspect is not derived solely from language practice, it 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"--