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The mental corpus :

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0199290806

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9780199290802

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The mental corpus :

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[Book]

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how language is represented in the mind /

First Statement of Responsibility

John R. Taylor

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 321 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [288]-312) and indexes

Text of Note

Conceptualizing language -- The dictionary and the grammar book : the generative model of linguistic knowledge -- Words and their behaviour -- Idioms -- Speaking idiomatically -- Constructions -- Frequency -- Skewed frequencies as a design feature of language -- Learning from input -- Polysemy -- Creativity and inovation -- Blending -- The mental corpus

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This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the interaction of syntax with a lexicon, the second listing the words and the first the rules for combining them. He proposes instead that an individual's knowledge of a language can be thought of as a repository of memories of linguistic experience. Each encounter with the language, he argues, leaves a trace in our minds. We record the forms of utterances, the concepts and interpretations associated with them, and the contexts in which they were heard or seen. Features of incoming language - a word, a phrase, a meaning, a voice quality, an interactional situation - resonate with items already stored. Similarities between stored items give rise to generalizations of varying degrees of certainty and precision, which in turn are able to sanction new and innovative expressions

Language acquisition-- Physiological aspects

Language and languages-- Physiological aspects

Language awareness

Neurolinguistics

Psycholinguistics

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Taylor, John R.,1944-

Date of Transaction

20121116032447.0

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[Book]

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