GRK 1624: Frequency as a Determinant in Usage-based Models of Language Change, Language Processing and Language Acquisition

研究培训小组的目的是进行丰富的经验和方法论协调的研究频率的影响，在语言，以经验为重点的标准和非标准品种的欧洲语言。频率被定义为给定语言结构在特定语言系统或子系统中出现的次数（如由合适的语料库近似）。在基于使用的语言变化、语言习得和语言处理模型中，频率被认为是一个可能的决定因素。虽然默认的假设是，有一个非平凡的关系，从而定义的发生频率和心理和结构表征，频率因素将进行调查，以既考虑到其解释潜力和它的局限性。在其整合的连续语言和认知主义的方法和广泛的经验语料库基础，设想的研究是没有平行的，无论是在国家和国际层面上，并开辟了一个新的，建设性的批评方法，以使用为基础的建模语言学。这种双管齐下的方法--扩大经验覆盖的广度，同时提高理论模型的复杂性--是一种具有巨大创新潜力的及时方法。

The Research Training Group aims to carry out empirically rich and methodologically coordinated research on frequency effects in language, with an empirical focus on standard and non-standard varieties of European languages. Frequency is defined in terms of number of occurrences of a given linguistic structure in a particular linguistic system or sub-system (as approximated by a suitable corpus). Frequency is assumed to be a possible determinant in usage-based models of language change, language acquisition and language processing. While the default assumption is that there is a non-trivial relation between frequency of occurrence thus defined and mental and structural representation, the frequency factor will be investigated with a view both to its explanatory potential and to its limitations. In its integration of descriptive-linguistic and cognitivist approaches and its broad empirical corpus base, the envisaged research is without parallel, both on the national and international levels, and opens up a new, constructively critical approach to usage-based modelling in linguistics. The two-pronged approach - extending the breadth of empirical coverage, while at the same time increasing the sophistication of the theoretical models - is a timely one that has great innovative potential.