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Emergence or Grammaticalization? The Case of Negation in Kata Kolok
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In: Languages; Volume 7; Issue 1; Pages: 23 (2022)
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Comparing Iconicity Trade-Offs in Cena and Libras during a Sign Language Production Task
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In: Languages; Volume 7; Issue 2; Pages: 98 (2022)
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On the effects of Catalan contact in the variable expression of Spanish future tense: A contrastive study of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid and Palma, Majorca
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Sprachgeschichte und Sprachwandel für die Schule: Konzeptionen und Unterrichtsmodelle ; Language history and change for schools: Concepts and teaching models
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Analysis of Language Change in Collaborative Instruction Following
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2022)
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Modeling language change in English first names
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 7, No 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 5243 ; 2473-8689 (2022)
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Lexical tectonics: Mapping structural change in patterns of lexification
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In: ISSN: 0721-9067 ; EISSN: 1613-3706 ; Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03092510 ; Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, De Gruyter, In press, The future of mapping: New avenues for semantic maps research (2021)
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Buzz or Change: How the Social Network Structure Conditions the Fate of Lexical Innovations on Twitter
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In: 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2021) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03426028 ; 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2021), Oct 2021, Nijmegen, Radboud University, Netherlands (2021)
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Functional pressures and linguistic typology
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The explanation of linguistic variation and change is one of the central questions in the language sciences. Functional explanations focus on how the needs and abilities of language users shape the distribution of linguistic structures that typically conventionalize -- e.g. structures that are harder to perceive or learn accurately are less likely to conventionalize accurately. Perceptibility effects are common sound patterns that seem closely related to the relative confusability of different speech sound sequences. One class of explanations -- purely phonological accounts --have assumed speakers (implicitly) know how confusability varies as a function of immediately adjacent sounds, and that this is a rich enough description of confusability to explain perceptibility effects. Chapter 2 shows that the perceptibility of tokens of any given sound in American English systematically varies based on a listener's incrementally-adjusted expectations about what the speaker intends to say, and shows that this variation is significantly greater than variation due to immediately adjacent sounds. To derive this result, I present a computational psycholinguistic model of word recognition and apply it to experimental confusability data and a transcribed lexicon of 10^4 words. I conclude that purely phonological accounts of perceptibility effects need to be more complicated and less modular than currently appreciated. Chapter 3 applies the same word recognition model and novel information-theoretic measures of confusability to two conversational corpora and shows that words that are more contextually confusable are lengthened in contexts where they are more confusable, and shortened where they are less so. This is a crucial step towards a linking hypothesis between the realtime perceptibility of different speech sound sequences and conventionalized perceptibility effects. Chapter 4 considers morphology. Prior research has observed an inverse relation between morphological complexity and demographic variables like speech community size and proportion of adult learners. Recent work has hypothesized that higher complexity may be helpful to child learners, and that populations with differing demographics constitute environments with different 'selection pressures' for language variants to 'evolve' in. I argue that mathematical formulations of Darwinian evolution suggest a more likely explanation: 'neutral' change caused by random fluctuations in variant frequency ('drift') is much more powerful in small populations and can easily overwhelm selection relative to large populations.
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computational psycholinguistics; language change; Linguistics; morphology; phonology
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