Constructions and their acquisition Islands and the distinctiveness of their occupancy

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 187-220

  Ellis, Nick C ^a,b   Ferreira Junior, Fernando ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Construction learning; Contingency; Frequency; Prototypicality; Second language acquisition (sla); Skewed input; Token frequency; Type; Usage based learning; Verb argument constructions; Zipfian distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449782237     PISSN: 15720268     EISSN: 15720276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/arcl.7.08ell     Document Type: Article

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