Alba, Matthew C.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Mounting evidence shows that frequency of use plays a fundamental role in shaping linguistic structure, including phonological structure (cf. Bybee 2001). Because the study of frequency effects is relatively new, our understanding of how they impact structure continues to be refined. This study explores the effects of several frequency measures on ...
Colina, Sonia
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This paper argues that language variation plays a critical role in the shaping and understanding of mental grammars and that Optimality Theory is a crucial player in demonstrating the relevance of variation data for advancing our knowledge of mental grammars. It takes the position that experimental, quantitative and variationist studies need to for...
Tight, Daniel G.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Bybee, Joan Torres, Rena
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Phonological and grammatical structure is shaped by usage patterns, as demonstrated by the effects of context and frequency on variation and change. We argue for an exemplar model of lexical representations, in which tokens of use are registered in memory, including phonetic detail as well as linguistic and social contextual information. Since vari...
Camacho, José
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This paper traces formulations of variation in Generative Grammar by analyzing an increasing tendency to have overt subject changes in Dominican Spanish (DS) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Changes start by an increase in the frequency of overt pronominals that triggers a reorganization of the pronouns’ lexical entries. Two alternative paths of chan...
Lleó, Conxita
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This paper deals with research on acquisition of Spanish phonology by young children. The beginnings of this discipline are placed within the model of Generative Grammar, at the end of the 1960s. The two main areas of phonology are considered: on the one hand segments, and certain chronological sequences of segment acquisition, and on the other han...
Gudmestad, Aarnes
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Bayley, Robert Preston, Dennis R.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Using sociolinguistic methods, variationists have successfully modeled many of the numerous factors that constrain L2 speakers’ use of variable linguistic forms. However, variationists have been less successful in developing a psycholinguistic model to account for variation in the grammar. In this paper we first describe early studies of L2 variati...
Valentin-Marquez, Wilfredo
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Bradley, Travis G.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
