All Stories

  1. Joint innovation

    Article • Journal of Historical Linguistics, August 2025, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  2. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Brian D Joseph, Hiram Smith, Professor Claire Bowern, Ailís Cournane, Dr Joan L Bybee

  3. Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, June 2022, Brill

    Dr Joan L Bybee, Shelece Easterday

  4. Consonant strengthening: A crosslinguistic survey and articulatory proposal

    Article • Linguistic Typology, July 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  5. Emergence at the Cross-Linguistic Level

    Article • January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  6. Analytic and holistic processing 
in the development of constructions

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  7. Usage-based Theory and Exemplar Representations of Constructions

    Article • April 2013

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  8. Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change

    Article • January 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  9. Domain‐general processes as the basis for grammar

    Article • November 2011

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  10. Usage‐based theory and grammaticalization

    Article • October 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  11. How plausible is the hypothesis that population size and dispersal are related to phoneme inventory size? Introducing and commenting on a debate

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  12. Markedness: Iconicity, Economy, and Frequency

    Article • November 2010

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  13. Usage-Based Theory

    Article • December 2009

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  14. A Usage-Based Account of Constituency and Reanalysis

    Article • Language Learning, December 2009, Wiley

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  15. Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper

    Article • Language Learning, December 2009, Wiley

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  16. Language Universals and Usage-Based Theory

    Article • March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  17. Language, Usage and Cognition

    Article • January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  18. The role of prefabs in grammaticization

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  19. Formal Universals as Emergent Phenomena: The Origins of Structure Preservation

    Article • January 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  20. Phonological and Grammatical Variation in Exemplar Models

    Article • Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  21. Adele Goldberg, Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 280. ISBN 0-19-9-268517 and 0-19-9-268525 (pbk).

    Article • Journal of Child Language, July 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  22. Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

    Article • January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  23. The Emergent Lexicon

    Article • January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  24. Regular Morphology and the Lexicon

    Article • January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  25. The Phonology of the Lexicon

    Article • January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  26. Lexicalization of Sound Change and Alternating Environments

    Article • January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  27. Sequentiality as the Basis of Constituent Structure

    Article • January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  28. Gradience of Gradience: A reply to Jackendoff

    Article • The Linguistic Review, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  29. From Usage to Grammar: The Mind's Response to Repetition

    Article • Language, January 2006, Project Muse

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  30. A Usage-based Approach to Spanish Verbs of 'Becoming'

    Article • Language, January 2006, Project Muse

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  31. Restrictions on phonemes in affixes: A crosslinguistic test of a popular hypothesis

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  32. Alternatives to the combinatorial paradigm of linguistic theory based on domain general principles of human cognition

    Article • The Linguistic Review, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  33. La liaison : effets de fréquence et constructions

    Article • Langages, January 2005, PERSEE Program

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  34. Word frequency and context of use in the lexical diffusion of phonetically conditioned sound change

    Article • Language Variation and Change, October 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  35. Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse

    Article • June 2002, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  36. Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative

    Article • June 2002, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  37. PHONOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR EXEMPLAR STORAGE OF MULTIWORD SEQUENCES

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, June 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  38. Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure

    Article • October 2001, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee, Paul Hopper

  39. Phonology and Language Use

    Article • July 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  40. Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure

    Article • January 2001, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  41. Frequency effects on French liaison

    Article • January 2001, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  42. Use impacts morphological representation

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  43. The effect of usage on degrees of constituency: the reduction of don't in English

    Article • Linguistics, January 1999, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  44. Usage-based Phonology [Functionalist phonology position paper]

    Article • January 1999, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  45. A Functionalist Approach to Grammar and Its Evolution

    Article • Evolution of Communication, December 1998, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  46. Prosody and Segmental Effect Some Paths of Evolution for Word Stress

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1998, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  47. Essays on Language Function and Language Type

    Article • May 1997, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  48. Semantic Aspects of Morphological Typology

    Article • January 1997, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  49. Productivity, Regularity and Fusion

    Article • January 1996, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  50. Regular morphology and the lexicon

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, October 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  51. Modality in Grammar and Discourse

    Article • August 1995, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  52. Are stem changes as natural as affixes?

    Article • Linguistics, January 1995, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  53. The Semantic Development of Past Tense Modals in English

    Article • January 1995, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  54. A view of phonology from a cognitive and functional perspective

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, January 1994, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  55. Natural morphology

    Article • July 1991, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  56. Back to the future

    Article • January 1991, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee, Dr Revere D Perkins

  57. On the asymmetries in the affixation of grammatical material

    Article • January 1990, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee, Dr Revere D Perkins

  58. The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1989, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee, Professor Östen Dahl

  59. Review of Dahl (1985): Tense and Aspect Systems

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1987, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  60. The evolution of future meaning

    Article • January 1987, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  61. Morphology

    Article • January 1985, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  62. Diagrammatic iconicity in stem-inflection relations

    Article • January 1985, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  63. Morphological Classes as Natural Categories

    Article • Language, June 1983, JSTOR

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  64. Rules and Schemas in the Development and Use of the English past Tense

    Article • Language, June 1982, JSTOR

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  65. Rules and schemas in the development and use of the English past tense

    Article • Language, January 1982, Project Muse

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  66. Why small children cannot change language on their own

    Article • January 1982, John Benjamins

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  67. On lexical and morphological conditioning of alternations: a nonce-probe experiment with Spanish verbs

    Article • Linguistics, January 1981, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  68. Explanation in morphophonemics: Changes in provençal and Spanish preterite forms

    Article • Lingua, November 1980, Elsevier

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  69. Morphophonemic change from inside and outside the paradigm

    Article • Lingua, January 1980, Elsevier

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  70. Child morphology and morphophonemic change

    Article • Linguistics, January 1979, De Gruyter

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  71. Notes

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  72. Language change and universals

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  73. Gradient constituency and gradual reanalysis

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  74. A usage-based perspective on language

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  75. Rich memory for language: exemplar representation

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  76. A Cognitive Approach to Clinical Phonology

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  77. Language use, cognitive processes and linguistic change

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joan L Bybee

  78. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Joan L Bybee