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Abstract: This chapter draws on recent and seminal work especially in usage-based linguistics to outline frequency effects in language change, meaning the various ways in which frequency causes and impacts change, but may also impede change. It first presents “internal” frequency effects within or among linguistic elements, such as the link between ...
Zehentner, Eva, Pijpops, Dirk
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Zehentner, Eva, Pijpops, Dirk
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Language contact and language change in Amazonia
2003Abstract Languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the forms they employ to express them. These simi-larities may be due to universal properties—for instance, all languages have clausal negation.
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Language Change in Contact Languages
2011The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems.
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Language Contact and Language Change
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1984In principle, the study of language contact can be defined open-endedly, dealing with the gamut of linguistic and sociolinguistic components, and ranging from microscopic analysis of recorded speech fragments to the fate of nations. In the present review we are concerned more narrowly with the kinds of language change traditionally dealt with by ...
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Language Standardization and Language Change
2004Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus ...
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Language Attitudes and Language Change
Abstract This chapter introduces the study of language attitudes in sociolinguistics (the so-called evaluation problem) and looks at how speech variation is perceived and can trigger attitudes in listeners. The chapter focuses on phonetic variation and the use of methods from social psychology to study how variation is indexically linkedopenaire +1 more source
Changing the Language of Addiction
JAMA, 2016Michael P, Botticelli, Howard K, Koh
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