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Language Change and Language Acquisition
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 The aim of this paper is to present diachronic changes in terms of the conditions of first language acquisition. Grammars, seen as mental organs, may change between two generations.
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
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Frequency patterns of semantic change: corpus-based evidence of a near-critical dynamics in language change [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 It is generally believed that when a linguistic item acquires a new meaning, its overall frequency of use rises with time with an S-shaped growth curve. Yet, this claim has only been supported by a limited number of case studies.
Q. Feltgen, B. Fagard, J.-P. Nadal
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Language teachers as eco-activists: From talking the talk to walking the walk
Journal of World Languages, 2022 The climate crisis has received a great deal of attention of late, yet its root causes go back to the last century and beyond. Also going back many years have been efforts to address the roots of the climate crisis.
Maley Alan
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A emergência dos marcadores discursivos note que e vá lá: uma análise funcional centrada no uso
Revista Odisséia, 2022 In this article, we analyze the emergence of discursive markers note that and go there in specific contexts in which the linking of meaning and form between the subparts constitutes a unit – a microconstruction – from the perspective of the ...
Ana Cláudia Machado Teixeira
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Défis, limites et promesses d’une sémantique historique en études ottomanes
European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2021 This article discusses the uses of conceptual history and historical semantics for Ottoman studies. It cautions against scientific and political pitfalls that may arise from a simplistic and uncritical adaptation of an historiographical trend and invites
Erdal Kaynar
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Mo, do, so, da – duortnussámi dovdomearkan?
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 In this article, I examine the dialect forms of a set of North Saami pronouns – mo, do, so, da (‘I, you, he/she, it’; standardized forms: mon, don, son, dan).
Lene Antonsen
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A Framework for the Computational Linguistic Analysis of Dehumanization
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2020 Dehumanization is a pernicious psychological process that often leads to extreme intergroup bias, hate speech, and violence aimed at targeted social groups.
Julia Mendelsohn +2 more
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On the Relationship of the Degrees of Correspondence of Dialects and Distances
Languages, 2019 This study analyzes the relationship between the degrees of resemblance and distances between dialects based on several dialectological atlases. This analysis investigates various correspondence data with respect to total valid data in setting reference ...
Takuichiro Onishi
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Parallel corpora. A real-time approach to the study of language change in progress [PDF]
Diacronia, 2015 The paper draws data from four matching one-million word corpora, namely Brown (US, 1961), LOB (GB, 1961), Frown (US, 1992) and FLOB (GB, 1991), in order to provide an integrated description of synchronic (regional and stylistic) variation and short-term
Christian Mair
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Glossa, 2019 The relation between language change and the process of language evolution is controversial in current linguistic theory. Some authors believe that the two processes are completely unrelated, while for others the evolution of language is (at least in ...
José-Luis Mendívil-Giró
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