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The sociopragmatic parameters steering the reported selection of Anglicisms or their Dutch alternatives

Linguistics, 2022
Researchers studying language variation and change induced by contact with English initially focused on the linguistic integration of English source language (SL) material in the morphophonological structure of the receptor language (RL).
Crombez Yasmin, Ghyselen Anne-Sophie, Winter-Froemel Esme, Zenner Eline   +3 more
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Phylogenetic trees: Grammar versus vocabulary

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2022
Traditionally, genealogical relationships between languages are established on the basis of phonetic and lexical data. The question whether genealogical relationships among languages can be defined based on grammatical data remains unanswered.
Vladimir N. Polyakov, Elena A. Makarova, Valery D. Solovyev   +2 more
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Affix substitution in Indonesian: A computational modeling approach

Linguistics, 2023
Indonesian has two noun-forming prefixes, PE- and PEN-, that often stand in a paradigmatic relation to verbal base words with the prefixes BER- and MEN-.
Denistia Karlina, Baayen R. Harald
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Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Historical linguistics is the study of language change and stability, of the history of individual languages, and of the relatedness between languages. In spite of numerous acknowledgements, the adoption of quantitative methods in historical linguistics ...
Barbara McGillivray, Gard B. Jenset
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Love in Numbers: Sládkovič’s Marína from the viewpoint of quantitative linguistics [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura, 2022
This review essay discusses the monograph Love in Numbers: Sládkovič’s Marína from the viewpoint of quantitative linguistics authored by Michal Místecký, Natália Kolenčíková, Martin Navrátil and Gabriel Altmann (Bratislava: Veda, 2020).
Miroslav Zumrík
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The Brevity Law as a Scaling Law, and a Possible Origin of Zipf’s Law for Word Frequencies

Entropy, 2020
An important body of quantitative linguistics is constituted by a series of statistical laws about language usage. Despite the importance of these linguistic laws, some of them are poorly formulated, and, more importantly, there is no unified framework ...
Álvaro Corral, Isabel Serra
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Does Scale-Free Syntactic Network Emerge in Second Language Learning?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Language is a complex system during whose operation many properties may emerge spontaneously. Using complex network approach, existing studies have found that, in first language (L1) acquisition, syntactic complex network featuring the scale-free and the
Jingyang Jiang, Wuzhe Yu, Haitao Liu, Haitao Liu, Haitao Liu   +4 more
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Seeking systematicity in variation : theoretical and methodological considerations on the “variety” concept [PDF]

, 2018
One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
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Ergativity and depth of analysis [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper, I argue that “depth of analysis” does not deserve the prestige that it is sometimes given in general linguistics. While language description should certainly be as detailed as possible, general linguistics must rely on worldwide comparison
Haspelmath, M.
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Principle of Least Effort and Sentence Length in Public Speaking

Entropy, 2021
The analysis of sentence lengths in the inaugural speeches of US presidents and the annual speeches of UK party leaders is carried out. Transcripts of the speeches are used, rather than the oral production.
Natalia L. Tsizhmovska, Leonid M. Martyushev   +1 more
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