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A quantitative perspective on the gramaticization of epistemic parentheticals in English
Sandra A. Thompson,Anthony Mulac +1 more
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Register, Genre, and Style
Douglas Biber,Susan Conrad +1 more
TL;DR: This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style.
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Redundancy and reduction: Speakers manage syntactic information density
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The new psychology of language : cognitive and functional approaches to language structure
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present some Surprises for Psychologists: Some Surprises of Psychologists for Language: Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization, De Bois' Discourse and Grammar, and the Geometry of Grammatical Meaning.
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The effect of usage on degrees of constituency : the reduction of don't in English
Joan L. Bybee,Joanne Scheibman +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the reduction of don't in American English conversation and found that don't is reduced the most in the contexts in which it occurs the most, that is, after I and before certain verbs, such as know.
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Frequency effects in language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change
TL;DR: This article surveys the effects of frequency on the use and development of language and considers the psychological mechanisms that underlie the various frequency effects, showing that frequency has an impact on the emergence of linguistic structure and that some well-known cross-linguistic tendencies arise from frequency effects.