Frequency of Use and the Organization of

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.

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

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Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

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