Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion
Title | Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion PDF eBook |
Author | B. Phillips |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2006-09-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0230286615 |
This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and other types of change affecting the least frequent words first.
Phonological Free Variation, Word Frequency, and Lexical Diffusion
Title | Phonological Free Variation, Word Frequency, and Lexical Diffusion PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Clifton Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
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Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Title | Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Bybee |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195301560 |
This is a collection of three decades of articles by the linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure.
Word frequency and lexical diffusion in dialect borrowing and phonological change
Title | Word frequency and lexical diffusion in dialect borrowing and phonological change PDF eBook |
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Language Change
Title | Language Change PDF eBook |
Author | Goparaju Sambasiva Rao |
Publisher | Academic Foundation |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | India |
ISBN | 9788171880577 |
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Title | Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Joan L. Bybee |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 2001-10-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027298033 |
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major principles. First, the content of people’s interactions consists of a preponderance of subjective, evaluative statements, dominated by the use of pronouns, copulas and intransitive clauses. Second, the frequency with which certain items and strings of items are used has a profound influence on the way language is broken up into chunks in memory storage, the way such chunks are related to other stored material and the ease with which they are accessed to produce new utterances.
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Title | Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Joan L. Bybee |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027229489 |
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major principles. First, the content of people s interactions consists of a preponderance of subjective, evaluative statements, dominated by the use of pronouns, copulas and intransitive clauses. Second, the frequency with which certain items and strings of items are used has a profound influence on the way language is broken up into chunks in memory storage, the way such chunks are related to other stored material and the ease with which they are accessed to produce new utterances.