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>> CSLI Publications, Stanford, announces:
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>> USAGE-BASED MODELS OF LANGUAGE
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>> Edited by
>> Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer
>> Department of Linguistics, Rice University
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>> This book brings together papers by the foremost representatives of
>> a range of theoretical and empirical approaches converging on a
>> common goal: to account for language USE, or how speakers actually
>> speak and understand language. Crucial to a usage-based approach are
>> frequency, statistical patterns, and, most generally, linguistic
>> experience. Linguistic competence is not seen as cognitively-
>> encapsulated and divorced from performance, but as a system
>> continually shaped, from inception, by linguistic usage events. The
>> authors represented here were among the first to leave behind
>> rule-based linguistic representations in favor of constraint-based
>> systems whose structural properties actually emerge from usage.
>> Such emergentist systems evince far greater cognitive and
>> neurological plausibility than algorithmic, generative models.
>> Approaches represented here include Cognitive Grammar, the Lexical
>> Network Model, Competition Model, Relational Network Model, and
>> Accessibility Theory. The empirical data come from phonological
>> variation, syntactic change, psycholinguistic experiments, discourse,
>> connectionist modeling of language acquisition, and linguistic corpora.
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>> USAGE-BASED MODELS OF LANGUAGE
>> Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, May 2000
>> Paperback, ISBN 1-57586-220-4, USD $24.95
>> Cloth, ISBN 1-57586-219-0, USD $64.95
>> Questions: pubs@csli.stanford.edu (650) 723-1839. To order: please
>> note that all CSLI Publications' titles are distributed by the
>> Cambridge University Press and should be ordered directly from them.
>> You can order online at http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/ or in North
>> America, http://www.cup.org/ .
>>
>> CONTENTS
>>
>> Introduction: A Usage-Based Conception of Language (21 pp.)
>> SUZANNE KEMMER AND MICHAEL BARLOW
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>> A Dynamic Usage-Based Model (63 pp.)
>> RONALD W. LANGACKER
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>> The Phonology of the Lexicon: Evidence From (20 pp.)
>> Lexical Diffusion
>> JOAN L. BYBEE
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>> Bidirectional Processing in Language and (32 pp.)
>> Related Cognitive Systems
>> SYDNEY LAMB
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>> Connectionism and Language Learning (28 pp.)
>> BRIAN MACWHINNEY
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>> The Effect of the Interlocutor on Episodic Recall: (45 pp.)
>> An Experimental Study
>> CONNIE DICKINSON AND T. GIVoN
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>> The Development of Person Agreement Markers: (63 pp.)
>> From Pronouns to Higher Accessibility Markers
>> MIRA ARIEL
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>> Interpreting Usage: Construing the History of (25 pp.)
>> Dutch Causal Verbs
>> ARIE VERHAGEN
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>> Investigating Language Use through Corpus-Based (25 pp.)
>> Analyses of Association Patterns
>> DOUGLAS BIBER
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>> Usage, Blends and Grammar (30
>pp.)
>> MICHAEL BARLOW
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>> Subject and Author Index
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Department of Phonetics & Linguistics, UCL
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel 020 7679 3174
Fax 020 7383 4108
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