Phonology and language use / Joan Bybee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bybee, Joan L., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 94.

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 94

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistic change.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Linguistic universals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Phonology & Language Use

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1 Language Use as Part of Linguistic Theory

1.1 Substance and Usage in Phonology

1.2 Some Basic Principles of a Usage-Based Model

1.3 The Creative Role of Repetition

1.4 Frequency Effects

1.5 Phonology as Procedure, Structure as Emergent

1.6 Organization of the Book

1.7 Language as a Part of Human Behavior

2 A Usage-Based Model for Phonology and Morphology

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Rule/List Fallacy

2.3 Organized Storage

2.4 Morphological Structure Is Emergent

2.5 Rules and Schemas Compared

2.6 Frequency Effects

2.7 Units of Storage

2.8 Phonological Units

2.9 From Local to General Schemas

2.10 Conclusion

3 The Nature of Lexical Representation

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Phonemic Principle

3.3 A Cognitively Realistic Model of Phonological

Representation

3.4 Linguistic Evidence for Detailed and Redundant

Storage

3.5 Usage-Based Categorization versus Phonemic

3.6 Phonetic Detail in the Lexicon - Variation and the

Early Involvement of the Lexicon and Morphology

in Change

3.7 A Model for Sound Change

3.8 Special Reduction of High-Frequency Words and

Phrases

3.9 Conclusion

4 Phonological Processes, Phonological Patterns

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Phonetic Etiology and Its Limits

4.3 Articulatory Gestures

4.4 Patterns of Change and Constraints on Processes

4.5 Segments as Emergent Units

4.6 Generalization over Syllable-Initial and Syllable-

Final Position

4.7 Phonotactics

4.8 Conclusion

5 The Interaction of Phonology with Morphology

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Morphological versus Phonological Conditioning

5.3 Lexical Storage of Complex Forms, Both Regular

and Irregular

5.4 Lexical Strength

5.5 Paradigmatic Relations Expressed as Lexical

Connections

5.6 Lexical Classes: Productivity Due to Type

Frequency

5.7 The Interaction of Lexical Strength and Lexical

Connection

5.8 Product-Oriented Schemas

5.9 Phonological Similarity in Gangs

5.10 Conclusion

6 The Units of Storage and Access: Morphemes, Words,

and Phrases

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Phonological Representations of Words

6.3 Morphemes within Words

6.4 Phrases and Constructions with Alternations

6.5 Conclusion

7 Constructions as Processing Units: The Rise and Fall

of French Liaison

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Final Consonant Deletion in French

7.3 Grammatical Constructions and Liaison

7.4 Loss of Liaison as Regularization

7.5 Syntactic Cohesion as Frequency of

Co-occurrence

7.6 Taking the Phonology Seriously

7.7 Conclusion

8 Universals, Synchrony and Diachrony

8.1 Universals and Explanation

8.2 Searching for Universals

8.3 Phoneme Inventories

8.4 Two Main Mechanisms for Phonological Change

8.5 Syllable Structure

8.6 More Evidence against Universals as Purely

H Synchronic

8.7 Diachronic Sources for Formal Universals: The

Phonemic Principle and Structure Preservation

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Languages Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-11400-4

0-511-15463-1

1-280-41872-9

0-511-61288-5

0-511-32523-1

0-511-05404-1

0-511-17466-7

0-521-53378-3

OCLC:

475915327