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How individuals change language ...
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Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions between individual speakers. It is, however, hard to directly observe how a single speaker's linguistic innovation precipitates a population-wide change in the language, and many theoretical proposals exist. We introduce a very general mathematical model that encompasses a wide variety of individual-level linguistic behaviours and provides statistical predictions for the population-level changes that result from them. This model allows us to compare the likelihood of empirically-attested changes in definite and indefinite articles in multiple languages under different assumptions on the way in which individuals learn and use language. We find that accounts of language change that appeal primarily to errors in childhood language acquisition are very weakly supported by the historical data, whereas those that allow speakers to change incrementally across the lifespan are more plausible, particularly when combined with social ... : 50 pages, 11 figures ...
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Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Biological sciences; FOS Computer and information sciences; FOS Physical sciences; Physics and Society physics.soc-ph; Populations and Evolution q-bio.PE
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2104.10210 https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10210
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Ubiquitous power law scaling in nonlinear self-excited Hawkes processes ...
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Damping effect in innovation processes: case studies from Twitter ...
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Two-loop splitting in double parton distributions: the colour non-singlet case ...
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Frequency compression in bimodal CI users (Sharma et al., 2021) ...
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Clinical and patient-reported voice measures (Houle & Johnson, 2021) ...
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Metadata record for: A multispeaker dataset of raw and reconstructed speech production real-time MRI video and 3D volumetric images ...
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Metadata record for: A multispeaker dataset of raw and reconstructed speech production real-time MRI video and 3D volumetric images ...
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Spatial distributions of languages extracted from Twitter ...
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Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing ...
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When is Char Better Than Subword: A Systematic Study of Segmentation Algorithms for Neural Machine Translation ...
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The Reading Machine: a Versatile Framework for Studying Incremental Parsing Strategies ...
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