This book fills a gap in lexical morphology, especially with reference to analogy in English
word-formation. Many studies have focused their interest on the role played by analogy …

We ask whether word order preferences for binomial expressions of the form A and B (eg
bread and butter) are driven by abstract linguistic knowledge of ordering constraints …

The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic
structures. The author proposes a theory of constructional access, which treats syntactic …

Psycholinguistic research over the past decade has suggested that children's linguistic
knowledge includes dedicated representations for frequently‐encountered multiword …

One of the main assumptions of usage-based constructionist approaches is that linguistic
knowledge is best conceived of as a repository of constructions, which emerge from …

Studies on acquisition of relative clauses by first and second language learners have
evoked considerable interest in recent decades. In line with such studies, in this present …

Prior research has identified a large number of processing-related factors that affect
language users' choices between two (or more) competing linguistic variants. However, one …

The ability to generate novel utterances compositionally using generative knowledge is a
hallmark property of human language. At the same time, languages contain non …

Second language learners reach expert levels in relative cue weighting only gradually. On
the basis of ensemble machine learning models fit to naturalistic written productions of …

The aim of this chapter is to contribute further to this ongoing debate by examining a number
of potential parallels between diachrony and ontogeny in English. Section 15.2 sets the …