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

Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and

The volume contains a collection of studies on how the analysis of corpus and psycholinguistic data reveal how linguistic knowledge is affected by the frequency

A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as g

Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While tradition