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Bybee, Joan Lea was born on February 11, 1945 in New Orleans. Daughter of Robert William and Elizabeth Mai Bybee.
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Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
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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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Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
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Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than assuming phonological representations in terms of phonemes, Joan Bybee adopts an exemplar model, in which specific tokens of use are stored and categorized phonetically with reference to variables in the context. This model allows an account of phonetically gradual sound change that produces lexical variation, and provides an explanatory account of the fact that many reductive sound changes affect high frequency items first.
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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World
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Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
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Joan Lea Bybee, American linguistics educator. Fellowship Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1987-1988, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, 1983-1984; recipient Disting Alumni award San Diego State University, 1976, Annual Research Lecturer award University New Mexico, 2004. Member of Linguistic Society of America (chair program committee 1982-1983, executive committee 1988-1991, vice president 2003, president 2004).
Education
Bachelor in Spanish and English, University Texas, 1966. Master of Arts in Linguistics, San Diego State University, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973.
Doctor (honorary), University Oslo, Norway, 2005.
Career
Professor linguistics State University of New York, Buffalo, 1973-1989. Distinguished professor linguistics University New Mexico, Albuquerque, since 1989, associate dean College Arts and Sciences, 1992-1993, department chair, 1999—2002. Director Linguistic Institute University New Mexico, 1995.
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Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
(Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional ...)
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Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
(Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional ...)
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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World
( Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of t...)
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Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
(This volume collects three decades of articles by the dis...)
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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World by Joan Bybee (1994-11-15)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Bybee, Joan (2003) Paperback
- (Phonology and Language Use) Author: Joan L. Bybee published on (January, 2002)
- (Phonology and Language Use) Author: Joan L. Bybee published on (March, 2003)
- (The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World) Author: Joan L. Bybee published on (November, 1994)
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Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
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Member of Linguistic Society of America (chair program committee 1982-1983, executive committee 1988-1991, vice president 2003, president 2004).
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1 child, Brody.
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1973 - 1989
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Fellowship Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1987-1988, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, 1983-1984. Recipient Disting Alumni award San Diego State University, 1976, Annual Research Lecturer award University New Mexico, 2004.Fellowship Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1987-1988, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, 1983-1984. Recipient Disting Alumni award San Diego State University, 1976, Annual Research Lecturer award University New Mexico, 2004.