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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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Social and structural aspects of language contact and change
, 2022 This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others ...
Schumacher, Jennifer +15 more
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Sound structure and sound change: A modeling approach
, 2019 This title is superseded by https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/410. 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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Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies [PDF]
, 2022 Syntactic change in contact is generally explained as a result of cognitive, structural/typological, or sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative weight of these factors in shaping the outputs of contact is yet to be assessed.
Terenghi, Silvia +5 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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Computational approaches to semantic change
, 2021 Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language ...
Borin, Lars; University of Gothenburg +26 more
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La langue bretonne à Arradon au XXe siècle
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2010 Language change, from Breton to French, occuring in Western Brittany during XXth century, is studied on a village scale of the Vannes area: Arradon. Ethno-socio-linguistic approach enlighten oral accounts from a few native Breton speakers.
Armelle Audic
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Usage on the move: Evolution and re-volution [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2017 One of the problems involved in using corpora to investigate language change is that many corpora are synchronic, particularly spoken ones. To observe change, a combination of methods is the most fruitful approach.
Michael McCarthy
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Understanding Language Death in Czech-Moravian Texas [PDF]
, 2007 Based on several decades of personal interaction with Texas speakers of Czech, the author's article attempts to correlate social change with some specific stages of language obsolescence and language death.
Hannan, Kevin
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A Dynamical Systems Model for Language Change [PDF]
, 1995 Formalizing linguists' intuitions of language change as a dynamical system, we quantify the time course of language change including sudden vs. gradual changes in languages.
Berwick, Robert +3 more
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