1 From usage to grammar : The mind ’ s response to repetition
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A usage-based view takes grammar to be the cognitive organization of one’s experience with language. Aspects of that experience, for instance, the frequency of use of certain constructions or particular instances of constructions, have an impact on representation that are evidenced in speaker knowledge of conventionalized phrases, and in language variation and change. It is shown that particular instances of construction can acquire their own pragmatic, semantic and phonological characteristics. In addition, it is argued that high frequency instances of constructions undergo grammaticization processes (which produce further change), function as the central members of categories formed by constructions and retain their old forms longer under the pressure of newer formations. An exemplar model that accommodates both phonological and semantic representation is elaborated to describe the data considered. * I am grateful to Sandra Thompson and Rena Torres-Cacoullos for many discussions of the phenomena treated in this paper. In addition, the questions and comments after the Presidential Address in Oakland in 2005 from Ray Jackendoff, Mark Baker, Larry Horn and Janet Pierrehumbert stimulated improvements in the paper.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005