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Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification: an experimental study ...
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Competition, selection and communicative need in language change: an investigation using corpora, computational modelling and experimentation ...
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Communicative need modulates competition in language change ...
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All living languages change over time. The causes for this are many, one being the emergence and borrowing of new linguistic elements. Competition between the new elements and older ones with a similar semantic or grammatical function may lead to speakers preferring one of them, and leaving the other to go out of use. We introduce a general method for quantifying competition between linguistic elements in diachronic corpora which does not require language-specific resources other than a sufficiently large corpus. This approach is readily applicable to a wide range of languages and linguistic subsystems. Here, we apply it to lexical data in five corpora differing in language, type, genre, and time span. We find that changes in communicative need are consistently predictive of lexical competition dynamics. Near-synonymous words are more likely to directly compete if they belong to a topic of conversation whose importance to language users is constant over time, possibly leading to the extinction of one of the ...
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Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Computer and information sciences
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2006.09277 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09277
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Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 5, No 1 (2020); 45 ; 2397-1835 (2020)
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Keelehoiakud Eesti keelekeskkondades 2015 andmestik ... : Linguistic attitudes in Estonia 2015 dataset ...
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Keelehoiakud Eesti keelekeskkondades 2015 ... : Linguistic attitudes in Estonia 2015 ...
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Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora ...
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Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language ...
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Topical advection as a baseline model for corpus-based lexical dynamics ...
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Topical advection as a baseline model for corpus-based lexical dynamics
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2018)
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Explaining Asymmetries In Number Marking: Singulatives, Pluratives And Usage Frequency ...
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Explaining Asymmetries In Number Marking: Singulatives, Pluratives And Usage Frequency ...
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