Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

by Bybee, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780195301564
• ISBN10: 0195301560
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. her work has been very influential for a broad range of researchers in linguistics, particularly in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, phonology, phonetics amnd historical linguistics.

Table of Contents

Part I Background and Current Context
Introduction to Part I	3	(2)
Introduction	5	(18)
Word Frequency in Lexical Diffusion and the Source of Morphophonological Change	23	(18)
Part II Frequency as a Determinant of Morphological Structure
Introduction to Part II	37	(4)
Explanation in Morphophonemics: Changes in Provencal and Spanish Preterite Forms	41	(33)
Mary Alexandra Brewer
On Lexical and Morphological Conditioning of Alternations: A Nonce-Probe Experiment with Spanish Verbs	74	(27)
Elly Pardo
Rules and Schemas in the Development and Use of the English Past Tense	101	(26)
Dan I. Slobin
Morphological Classes as Natural Categories	127	(21)
Carol Lynn Moder
Are Stem Changes as Natural as Affixes?	148	(19)
Jean E. Newman
Regular Morphology and the Lexicon	167	(32)
Part III Phonetic Change: Frequency in Context
Introduction to Part III	197	(2)
The Phonology of the Lexicon: Evidence from Lexical Diffusion	199	(17)
Lexicalization of Sound Change and Alternating Environments	216	(19)
Word Frequency and Context of Use in the Lexical Diffusion of Phonetically Conditioned Sound Change	235	(34)
Part IV Frequency Effects in Mophosyntax
Introduction to Part IV	267	(2)
Three Frequency Effects in Syntax	269	(10)
Sandra Thompson
The Emergent Lexicon	279	(15)
The Effect of Usage on Degrees of Constituency: The Reduction of Don't in English	294	(19)
Joanne Scheibman
Sequentiality as the Basis of Constituent Structure	313	(23)
Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency	336	(23)
Index	359