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Word-specific phonology

The impact of token frequency and base transparency
  • Bartłomiej Czaplicki
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Studies in Lexicogrammar
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Abstract

Three factors play an important role in predicting the output of word formation processes and the direction of pattern extension: type frequency, token frequency, and base transparency. Base transparency, the focus of this chapter, is responsible for the selection of allomorphs that diverge the least from the base. One pattern from Finnish and two patterns from Polish illustrate various degrees of applicability of base transparency to specific words.

Abstract

Three factors play an important role in predicting the output of word formation processes and the direction of pattern extension: type frequency, token frequency, and base transparency. Base transparency, the focus of this chapter, is responsible for the selection of allomorphs that diverge the least from the base. One pattern from Finnish and two patterns from Polish illustrate various degrees of applicability of base transparency to specific words.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Theoretical and methodological issues
  6. Toward an integrated view of structure, processing, and discourse 23
  7. Looking into introspection 55
  8. Virtual lexicogrammar 75
  9. Part II: The semantics and pragmatics of morphosyntactic constructions
  10. From the meaning of the concrete noun to its grammatical property and back 95
  11. What? You and me get together? The place of the Incredulity Response Construction in the lexicon-syntax continuum 121
  12. The binding hierarchy and infinitival complementation in English and in Polish 143
  13. The conceptual structure of reflexivity in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , Manuscript E 161
  14. Part III: Figuration and lexicogrammatical structure
  15. Lexical and grammatical dimensions of metaphor – a Cognitive Grammar perspective 175
  16. The interplay of metaphor and metonymy in English noun+noun compounds 193
  17. Towards an experientially-based classification of motion situations 211
  18. Space and time in medium-mediated expressions of distance 229
  19. Part IV: Morphological and phonological structure
  20. Headedness of coordinate compounds in Polish and English 243
  21. Word-specific phonology 261
  22. Name index 277
  23. Subject index 279
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.54.14cza

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Theoretical and methodological issues
  6. Toward an integrated view of structure, processing, and discourse 23
  7. Looking into introspection 55
  8. Virtual lexicogrammar 75
  9. Part II: The semantics and pragmatics of morphosyntactic constructions
  10. From the meaning of the concrete noun to its grammatical property and back 95
  11. What? You and me get together? The place of the Incredulity Response Construction in the lexicon-syntax continuum 121
  12. The binding hierarchy and infinitival complementation in English and in Polish 143
  13. The conceptual structure of reflexivity in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , Manuscript E 161
  14. Part III: Figuration and lexicogrammatical structure
  15. Lexical and grammatical dimensions of metaphor – a Cognitive Grammar perspective 175
  16. The interplay of metaphor and metonymy in English noun+noun compounds 193
  17. Towards an experientially-based classification of motion situations 211
  18. Space and time in medium-mediated expressions of distance 229
  19. Part IV: Morphological and phonological structure
  20. Headedness of coordinate compounds in Polish and English 243
  21. Word-specific phonology 261
  22. Name index 277
  23. Subject index 279
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