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The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rules and regularities in first and second languages
Stefano Rastelli
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 20] 2024
► pp. 37–75

Chapter 2
The background

Article outline

2.1What’s in this chapter
2.2Resetting the scene
2.3The ‘words and rules’ paradigm in the 1990s and its evolution
2.4Unifying statistics and grammar
2.5Storage and computation within the faculty of language
2.6The FL hosts a separate statistical component
2.7Three ways for frequency and grammar to coexist in the FL
2.8The tolerance principle
2.9Nature meets nurture
2.10Necessity and probability in language
2.11Non-generative theories concerning the frequency-
grammar interaction
2.12Coexistence and simultaneity of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships
2.13Entrenchment and representational redundancy in cognitive linguistics
2.14Entrenchment in diachrony: Broken grammaticalization
2.15Statistics and the grammar in the acquisition of an artificial language
2.16Sequence-based and rule-based dependencies in artificial languages
2.17The role of Broca’s area in sequential and nonsequential processing
2.18Type-frequency and grammatical learning
2.19‘Good-enough’ processing and syntactic predictions
2.20Frequency and grammar in language acquisition: A general framework
2.21Statistical and grammatical learning in first language acquisition theories
2.22The starting big approach
2.23The traceback method
2.24SL and GL in second language acquisition (SLA) theories
2.25The developmental shift in ERP studies
2.26Regularity effects in word naming and morphosyntax
2.27Logan’s instance theory of automatization
2.28The dual process model
2.29Sentence grammar and thetical grammar
2.30To sum up