24.1016, Diss: Phonetics/Phonology/Psycholing/Socioling/German/Indonesian/Japanese: Sloos: 'Phonological Grammar and Frequency...'

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:00:36
From: Marjoleine Sloos [marj.sloos at gmail.com]
Subject: Phonological Grammar and Frequency: An integrated approach: Evidence from German, Indonesian and Japanese

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Institution: CLCG Groningen Institute for Linguistics, the Netherlands 
Program: Phonology PhD 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2013 

Author: Marjoleine Sloos

Dissertation Title: Phonological Grammar and Frequency: An integrated approach: 
Evidence from German, Indonesian and Japanese 

Dissertation URL:  http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/arts/2013/m.sloos/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): German (deu)
                     Indonesian (ind)
                     Japanese (jpn)


Dissertation Director(s):
John Nerbonne
Jeroen van de Weijer

Dissertation Abstract:

In language change, we usually find that words with a relatively low word 
frequency change at a faster rate than words with a relatively high word 
frequency. Reversely, in reduction processes, we observe that high-frequency 
words tend to change first and low-frequency words change later. How do these 
facts relate to variable processes in which neither analogical change nor 
reduction is involved? Does frequency also play a role, for instance, in stable 
patterns of variation or in loanword adaptation? 

This dissertation investigates phonological variation and change in three case 
studies: the pronunciation of the long vowel <ä> in Standard German, Dutch 
loanword integration in Indonesian, and sequential voicing in Japanese. It shows 
that frequency effects occur such that relatively high-frequency words adapt to a 
general phonological rule and relatively low-frequency words behave differently. 
This exceptional behaviour of low-frequency words may be related to their 
relatively unstable or opaque lexical representation or their opaque 
morphophonological structure. 

This thesis also investigates the relation between frequency effects and 
grammar. It is shown that these two factors are not independent, as suggested 
by earlier literature, but, on the contrary, intimately related. Frequency effects are 
sensitive to grammatical structure. This calls for an amalgamation of 
phonological models which were previously regarded as disconnected; therefore 
this thesis proposes a combined Exemplar-Prototype-Optimality theoretical 
model (EPOT).






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