Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form
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This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that create them. For the student, the clear discussion of morphology and morphophonemics and the rich variety of data brought in on the way to the theoretical conclusion is material for a direct learning experience.
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Reliability influences language change and accuracy and error patterns in L1 and L2 processing and acquisition.
“Reliability has been shown to influence language change (Bybee, 1985) as well as accuracy and error patterns in L1 (N. C. Ellis, O'Donnell, & Römer, 2014;Hay, 2001;Matthews & Theakston, 2006;Tatsumi et al., 2018) and L2 processing and acquisition (N.C. Ellis et al., 2014;Sugaya & Shirai, 2009).”
From Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing (2022) · cites this paper as Bybee, 1985
In L1 acquisition, the relative frequency of different forms of the same word predicts usage and error patterns in morpheme acquisition.
“We have already described how, in L1 acquisition, the relative frequency of different forms of the same word have been found to predict the usage and error patterns in morpheme acquisition (Bybee, 1985;Hay, 2001;Matthews & Theakston, 2006).”
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- Authors
- Bybee, J. L.
- Affiliations
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bybee, Joan L.
- ORCID
- Bybee, Joan L.
- Venue
- Typological Studies in Language
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 1985-01-01
- ISSN
- 0167-7373 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4251482102
- Cited by
- 2,121
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 24.61
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Typological studies in language (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Keywords
- morphology (linguistics), morphophonology, morphological system, historical morphology, morphological processes
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