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Causes and Consequences of Word Structures - Couverture rigide

Hay, Jennifer

 
9780415967884: Causes and Consequences of Word Structures
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0415967880 ISBN 13 : 9780415967884
Editeur : Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

This book explores effects of speech perception strategies upon morphological structure. Using connectionist modeling, perception and production experiments, and calculations over lexica, Jennifer Hay investigates the role of two factors known to be relevant to speech perception: phonotactics and lexical frequency. Hay demonstrates that low probability phoneme transitions across morpheme boundaries exert a considerable force toward the maintenance of complex words, and argues that the relative frequency of the derived form and the base significantly affects the decomposability of complex words. While many have claimed that high frequency forms do not tend to be decomposed, Hay asserts that this follows only when such forms are more frequent than the bases they contain. The results of Hay's experiments illustrate the tight connection between speech processing, lexical representations, and aspects of linguistic competence. The likelihood that a form will be parsed during speech perception has profound consequences, from its grammaticality as a base of affixation, through to fine details of its implementation in the phonetics.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Hay received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2000, and currently teaches in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research interests include New Zealand English, sociophonetics, laboratory phonology, and morphology. She has published articles on morphology, language and gender, humor, phonotactics, and lexical semantics.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415967880
ISBN 13 
9780415967884
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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