256 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Phonotactics and Morphology in Speech Perception; Chapter 3 Phonotactics and the Lexicon; Chapter 4 Relative Frequency and Morphological Decomposition; Chapter 5 Relative Frequency and the Lexicon; Chapter 6 Relative Frequency and Phonetic Implementation; Chapter 7 Morphological Productivity; Chapter 8 Affix Ordering; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
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.
