Phonology and Language Use

Dr. Bybee is Regents's Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico.

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Joan Bybee

页数:260

出版时间:2001-07-23

价格:USD 99.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521583749

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.