Resumen de Phonetics, Phonology, and Usage-Based Approaches
The beginnings of the twenty-first century have been marked by a sharp increase in the number of researchers engaged in usage-based approaches to phonological representation. While recognizing the important role that formal phonology has played in the identification of generalized language patterns and their structural descriptions, this chapter focuses mostly on the latter (i.e., usage-based approaches to phonetics and phonology). It reviews a selection of background literature relevant to current debates, themes, and trends in usage-based phonology. Closely related fields rooted in functional approaches to linguistics, such as cognitive linguistics, cognitive phonology, or embodied phonology, sociolinguistics, and sociophonetics are referenced. Usage-based approaches encompass all of these areas, given their centrality to language use. Then the chapter looks at current trends in the field and considers a selection of studies—from both production and perception standpoints—that employ acoustic techniques in order to answer questions related to usage-based phenomena.
