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Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in by Joan Bybee PDF

By Joan Bybee

ISBN-10: 0521533783

ISBN-13: 9780521533782

ISBN-10: 0521583748

ISBN-13: 9780521583749

A learn standpoint that takes language use into consideration opens up new perspectives of previous concerns and offers an realizing of concerns that linguists have infrequently addressed. Referencing new advancements in cognitive and sensible linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this e-book investigates a variety of ways that a speaker/hearer's event with language impacts the illustration of phonology. instead of assuming phonological representations by way of phonemes, Joan Bybee adopts an exemplar version, during which particular tokens of use are kept and categorised phonetically just about variables within the context. This version permits an account of phonetically sluggish sound switch which produces lexical edition, and gives an explanatory account of the truth that many reductive sound adjustments have an effect on excessive frequency goods first. the well known results of variety and token frequency on morphologically-conditioned phonological changes are proven additionally to use to bigger sequences, similar to mounted words and structures, fixing a few of the difficulties formulated formerly as facing the phonology-syntax interface.

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