| Causes and Consequences of Word Structure Contributor(s): Hay, Jennifer (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415967880 ISBN-13: 9780415967884 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 415 |
| LCCN: 2004297538 |
| Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.47" W x 9.04" (1.13 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |