ISBN-13: 9783110293852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 306 str.
ISBN-13: 9783110293852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 306 str.
This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the correlation between corpus-extracted usage data and mental entrenchment, the author operationalises entrenchment in Gestalt psychological terms and conducts a series of behavioural and neuroimaging experiments.