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Entrenchment
The establishment of a linguistic unit as a cognitive pattern or routine in the mind of an individual language user. The greater the frequency of the linguistic unit in the language input the more entrenched the unit is likely to become. Entrenchment is a notion associated in particular with cognitive grammar.
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