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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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Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard +16 more
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Sound structure and sound change: A modeling approach (Second revised edition)
, 2023 Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way – narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for increased depth of study.
Morley, Rebecca L.
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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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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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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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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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