Resumen de Understanding the Roles of Type and Token Frequency in Usage-Based linguistics
The fundamental premise of usage-based linguistics is that language structure emerges from language use. Type and token frequency measures are ways to quantify linguistic experience, which rely on the notion that such experience can be discretized into events or units, such as words. The influence of token frequency on accessibility of a form has many consequences for language change, and the emergence of linguistic structure. Type frequency has also been observed to affect accessibility, under other names. First, words with a large morphological family size are easier to recognize. High token frequency of a structure can result in the parts of that structure fusing together into a chunk. Although high token frequency makes a word resistant to analogical change, it also makes the word more susceptible to articulatory streamlining. Type frequency is a relatively uncontroversial correlate of productivity, i.e., the likelihood of using a form or pattern in a new context.
