Download or read book Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing written by Stefan Th. Gries and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of linguistic elements/stimuli. The studies explore a wide range of phenomena , from phonological reduction processes and palatalization to morphological productivity, diachronic change, adjective preposition constructions, auxiliary omission, and multi-word units. The languages studied are Spanish and artificial languages, Russian, Dutch, and English. The sister volume focuses on language representation.