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Language Change and Language Acquisition [PDF]
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 Processing as a Precursor to Language Change: Evidence From Icelandic [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 One of the main characteristics of human languages is that they are subject to fundamental changes over time. However, because of the long transitional periods involved, the internal dynamics of such changes are typically inaccessible. Here, we present a
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky +7 more
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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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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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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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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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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
Isogloss, 2021 The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left ...
Caterina Bonan
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Language change and grammar teaching books in EFL [PDF]
Journal of Contemporary Education Theory & Research, 2019 The present study investigates the changes that English Grammar has undergone throughout the last four decades and how these alterations are depicted in Grammar Teaching Books.
Anastasia Balla
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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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