Causes and Consequences of Word Structure

By:

Jennifer Hay

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

December 11th, 2013

Author

Jennifer Hay

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

256

Series

Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780415861403

Product ID

21038153

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