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Phonology and Language Use

By Joan Bybee

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780521583749, 0521583748
LCC
P217.3 .B93 2001
Open Library ID
OL6787896M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1190154 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Edition
1
Pages
257\257
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

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 that produces lexical variation, and provides an explanatory account of the fact that many reductive sound changes affect high frequency items first.

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