Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language

Frequency is a critical factor in shaping emerging linguistic systems, be it in first or second language learning, or in the historical or social dimensions of language change. This volume comprises studies that show how and which patterns are abstracted from the language speakers hear, and what makes them adopt new usages or constructions.

Heike Behrens, University of Basel, Switzerland; Stefan Pfänder, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany.