Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language learning a

The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language. A major str

Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based appr

The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable categories and those which resist transfer. Resistance is illustrated for the unattested emergence of