Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English
By G. Rohdenburg. English and American Studies in German, 2003
169 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The factors investigated in the volume include the following: phonological influences (such as the principle of rhythmic alternation and optimal syllable structure), frequency, pervasive semantic and pragmatic aspects (including iconicity, markedness, grammaticalization and typological tendencies), information structure, processing complexity and horror aequi (the avoidance of identity effects).
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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In Developmental and Educational Psychology
In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Martin Hilpert
- Stefan Gries
- Anatol Stefanowitsch
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Nick C. Ellis
- Stefanie Wulff
- Ute Römer
- Scott Andrew Crossley
Citations in the corpus
- Language users as creatures of habit: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English (2005, background): “Crucially, priming is not restricted to syntax: there is evidence of semantic priming (Meyer and Schvaneveldt 1971), lexical priming (Levelt and Kelter 1982), morphological priming (Kempley and Morton 1982), form priming (Tanenhaus et al. 1980), and word order priming (Hartsuiker and Westenberg…”
- Extending collostructional analysis: A corpus-based perspective on `alternations' (2004, background): “…with each other; still, what is primary are the constructions, and not the paraphrase relation (cf. Goldberg (2002), Gries (2003a: Section 7.1.2), Stefanowitsch (2003) for additional arguments for this position, based on a variety of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic differences between the…”
- Modeling diachronic change in the third person singular: a multifactorial, verb- and author-specific exploratory approach1 (2010, background): “Presumably, this can be interpreted as the result of speakers trying to avoid a close sequence of auditorily similar sounds (cf. the horror aequi principle, Rohdenburg 2003).”