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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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Do language change rates depend on population size? [PDF]
, 2007 An earlier study (Nettle 1999b) concluded, based on computer simulations and some inferences from empirical data, that languages will change the more slowly the larger the population gets.
Holman, Eric W. +3 more
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Libraries, Language, and Change: Defining the Information Present [PDF]
, 1998 Changes in the information world are resulting in new concepts of resource sharing, new practices in the management of library resources, and an expanding role for libraries in the educational process.
Billings, Harold
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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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Temporal Analysis of Language through Neural Language Models [PDF]
, 2014 We provide a method for automatically detecting change in language across time through a chronologically trained neural language model. We train the model on the Google Books Ngram corpus to obtain word vector representations specific to each year, and ...
Chiu, Yi-I +4 more
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Refunctionalization and Usage Frequency: An Exploratory Questionnaire Study
Languages, 2018 This paper explores the relationship between refunctionalization and usage frequency. In particular, it argues that (a) refunctionalization is more likely for low-frequency construction than high-frequency constructions, and that (b) high-frequency ...
Malte Rosemeyer
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, 2014 Languages are slippery, and they don't like being con-tained.We have already broken the rules. That was not one hun-dred words. That was far, far less than one hundred words. Each section, we agreed, should consist of one hundred words. That section could have easily been rewritten to con-sist of one hundred words.
Jonathan Hsy, Chris Piuma
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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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LingBaW, 2023 In this paper, some core premises that are held about Turkish Phonology are put into question, both theoretically and empirically. Some modifications to the Turkish phonological inventory and to the language's phonotactic constraints are then proposed ...
Nicolas Royer-Artuso
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