Nach bisherigen Studien im Paradigma gebrauchsbasierter sprachtheoretischer Modellierungen gilt die Frequenz eines sprachlichen Phänomens in Produktion und Perzeption als einer der entscheidenden Faktoren zur Ausformung der mentalen Repräsentation von sprachlichen Strukturen. Diese postulieren ...

Mein Dissertationsprojekt ist dem Bereich der Code-Switching-Forschung zuzuordnen. Ziel ist die Entwicklung eines gebrauchsbasierten Modells für intrasententielles Code-Switching. Der Analyse liegt die Annahme der gebrauchsbasierten Linguistik zugrunde, dass eine Aktivierung von zwei Elementen zu ...

The project aims at modelling the factor "frequency" in language change if the change is seen as a change in the cognitive representation of a linguistic form.
The current restructuring of the English modal system has long been noted as an ongoing language change process. Previous work ...

Prior research in the domain of input enhancement has shown that exposing second language learners not only to natural input, but also to pedagogically enriched input (e.g., in so-called input floods) is often not enough to trigger incidental learning. The PhD thesis proposes that learners’ ...

How does the frequency of word-strings influence sentence processing and interpretation? In the sentence "Der Polizist, dem die Kollegin überrascht den Jungen zeigte, war außer sich vor Freude." ( The policeman, that_DAT the colleague_NOM surprisedly/surprised the boy_AKK showed, was very happy / ...

The central thesis of my dissertation is that the distinction between non-salient and salient dialectal features lies in their negative frequency. To put it simply, the less probable a speech string containing a feature is, the more conspicuous it becomes. An example could be definite article ...

Die Dissertation beschreibt den Wandel der Hilfsverbselektion im Spanischen. Bis zum Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts wurde ser ("sein") + Partizip in intransitiven Vergangenheitskontexten durch haber ("haben") + Partizip ersetzt. Ich argumentiere in einem ersten Schritt, dass die beiden Konstruktionen im ...

This book represents a contribution to the study of phonetic reduction. It presents the first quantitative investigation of acoustic-phonetic reduction in Icelandic and deals with the reduction patterns of a class of Icelandic adverbs ending in the suffix ?lega. Three questions are asked: Which ...

This book addresses the questions in how far the frequency with which speakers use sequences of words influences how their minds store and process these strings and how such effects can best be modelled.
The studies compiled in the book start out from the usage-based tenet that language use ...

My study proposes an empirical corpus-based analysis of noun+noun constructions in contemporary written Romanian, born out of a mixture of socio-cultural phenomena during the past decades and having tremendous implications on the understanding of language change and cultural kinship. This study is ...