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Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 94)
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PHONOLOGY AND LANGUAGE USE
A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up
new views of old issues and provides an understanding of issues that lin-
guists have rarely addressed. Referencing new developments in cog-
nitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling,
this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer’s experi-
ence 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. The well-known effects of type and token fre-
quency 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.
Joan Bybee is the author of several books and articles on phonology,
morphology, language universals, and linguistic change. Most recently,
she served as a coeditor for both Essays on Language and Function Type
(1997) and Modality in Grammar and Discourse (1995). Dr. Bybee is
Regents’ Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of
Linguistics at the University of New Mexico.
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CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS
General editors: S. R. ANDERSON, J. BRESNAN, B. COMRIE,
W. DRESSLER, C. EWEN, R. HUDDLESTON, R. LASS,
D. LIGHTFOOT, J. LYONS, P. H. MATTHEWS, R. POSNER,
S. ROMAINE, N. V. SMITH, N. VINCENT
Phonology and Language Use
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS
In this series
72 LUIGI BURZIO: Principles of English stress
73 JOHN A. HAWKINS: A performance theory of order and constituency
74 ALICE C. HARRIS and LYLE CAMPBELL: Historical syntax in cross-
linguistic perspective
75 LILIANE HAEGEMAN: The syntax of negation
76 PAUL GORRELL: Syntax and parsing
77 GUGLIELMO CINQUE: Italian syntax and Universal Grammar
78 HENRY SMITH: Restrictiveness in case theory
79 D. ROBERT LADD: Intonational phonology
80 ANDREA MORO: The raising of predicates: Predicative noun phrases
and the theory of clause structure
81 ROGER LASS: Historical linguistics and language change
82 JOHN M. ANDERSON: A notional theory of syntactic categories
83 BERND HEINE: Possession: Cognitive sources, forces and
grammaticalization
84 NOMI ERTESCHIK-SHIR: The dynamics of focus structure
85 JOHN COLEMAN: Phonological representations: Their names, forms
and powers
86 CHRISTINA Y. BETHIN: Slavic prosody: Language change and
phonological theory
87 BARBARA DANCYGIER: Conditionals and prediction: Time, knowledge,
and causation in English
88 CLAIRE LEFEBVRE: Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar:
The case of Haitian Creole
89 HEINZ GIEGERICH: Lexical strata in English: Morphological causes,
phonological effects
90 KEREN RICE: Morpheme order and semantic scope: Word formation
in the Athapaskan verb
91 APRIL McMAHON: Lexical phonology and the history of English
92 MATTHEW Y. CHEN: Tone sandhi: Patterns across Chinese dialects
93 GREGORY T. STUMP: Inflectional morphology
Supplementary volumes
LILIANE HAEGEMAN: Theory and description in generative syntax: A case
study in West Flemish
A. E. BACKHOUSE: The lexical field of taste: A semantic study of Japanese
taste terms
NIKOLAUS RITT: Quantity adjustment: Vowel lengthening and shortening
in early Middle English
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