Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

ISBN13: 9780195301571ISBN10: 0195301579 Paperback, 376 pages

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This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance off 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, and historical linguistics.

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376 pages; 21 line illus.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-530157-1ISBN10: 0-19-530157-9

About the Author(s)

Joan Bybee is Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico

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