Phonology and Language Use

Phonology and Language Use
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 0521533783
ISBN-13 : 9780521533782
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Book Synopsis Phonology and Language Use by : Joan Bybee

Download or read book Phonology and Language Use written by Joan Bybee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up new views of old issues and provides an understanding of issues that linguists have rarely addressed. Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than assuming phonological representations in terms of phonemes, Joan Bybee adopts an exemplar model, in which specific tokens of use are stored and categorized phonetically with reference to variables in the context. This model allows an account of phonetically gradual sound change which produces lexical variation, and provides an explanatory account of the fact that many reductive sound changes affect high frequency items first. The well-known effects of type and token frequency on morphologically-conditioned phonological alterations are shown also to apply to larger sequences, such as fixed phrases and constructions, solving some of the problems formulated previously as dealing with the phonology-syntax interface.


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