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  1. Globalising the study of language variation and change: A manifesto on cross-cultural sociolinguistics

    Language and national focus of papers in Language Variation and Change, 2016-2021. JofS is modestly more diverse, but still Anglo- and Western-centric: ... Overcoming the Observer's Paradox must be approached differently in research in a new language and culture. Getting a balanced sample of speakers may be impossible in a small community or ...

  2. (PDF) Factors Affecting Language Change

    television, radio, films, music, magazines and fashion. Technological factor- which means rapid advances in information technology, industries, products and economy simply require new words that ...

  3. Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic

    As with global biodiversity, the world's language diversity is under threat. Of the approximately 7,000 documented languages, nearly half are considered endangered 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.In comparison ...

  4. LANGUAGE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

    Harya [13] contends that "language can change and develop because of adaptation of development and pattern change and system of society life, such as level of education, social, culture and ...

  5. (PDF) Language variation and change

    This chapter focuses on the branch of sociolinguistics called "language variation and change". (hereafter L VC) or "variationist sociolinguistics" (sometimes also referred to as ...

  6. Understanding language change

    Nature Human Behaviour 1 , 779 ( 2017) Cite this article. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 114, E8822-E8829 (2017) Languages change over time, which makes it harder to trace their history and genealogy ...

  7. A shared foundation of language change

    Short-term development and long-term evolution of language share mechanisms. As they learn to speak, children often use words that they have already learned to name new objects, in a process called word meaning extension. As the world changes, humans encounter new things that need to be described using a finite set of words. A common strategy ...

  8. Comparative sociolinguistic perspectives on the rate of linguistic change

    This issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics aims to contribute to our understanding of language change in real time by presenting a group of articles particularly focused on social and sociocultural factors underlying language diversification and change. By analysing data from a varied set of languages, including Greek, English, and the Finnic and Mongolic language families, and ...

  9. The Handbook of Language Variation and Change

    Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics. A fully revised and expanded edition of this acclaimed reference work, which has established its reputation based on its ...

  10. Frontiers

    1 Language Science and Technology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany; 2 Digital Linguistics, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany; We trace the evolution of Scientific English through the Late Modern period to modern time on the basis of a comprehensive corpus composed of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, the first and longest-running ...

  11. Language Development across the Life Span: A Neuropsychological

    We know that phonological abilities develop in a way that corresponds to the brain's growing specialization in terms of recognizing native language phonemes [].During the second and third years of life, the ability to not only perceive but actually produce native speech sounds increases significantly, so that by the age of 4-5 years phoneme repertory development doubles, and in the range of ...

  12. PDF The Logical Problem of Language Change: a Case Study of European Portuguese

    drive language change. This working hypothesis will be sharpened in the rest of the paper and the computational consequences will be explored. 1.1 The population approach This paper presents a computational approach to the interaction of two important cognitive phenomena: language learning and language change. The

  13. How individuals change language

    Abstract. 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 ...

  14. PDF Language change: progress or decay?

    Professor of Language and Communication, University of Oxford. published by the press syndicate of. the university of cambridge. The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom. cambridge university press. The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK www.cup.cam.ac.uk. 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA www ...

  15. Changing perceptions of language in sociolinguistics

    Abstract. This paper traces the changing perceptions of language in sociolinguistics. These perceptions of language are reviewed in terms of language in its verbal forms, and language in vis-à ...

  16. Language Change Research Papers

    Using the London-Lund Corpora to investigate recent change in advice-giving in spoken English (IPrA2021, July 2021, Winterthur, Switzerland) Several new spoken corpora have seen the light of day in recent years. Few, however, are comparable to a corpus from an earlier period to facilitate diachronic investigations of spoken language.

  17. On Physical Thoughts of Language Change

    Language change is the focus of linguistic research. There are various theories on language change, among which the most important ones are Family Tree Theory, Wave Theory, Theory of Lexical Diffusion, Labov's Theory of Linguistic Variation, Overlapped Sound Change Theory, and the Punctuated Equilibrium Model. By discussing physical thoughts in these theories, this paper proposes that since ...

  18. Research Guide on Language Change

    Polomé, Edgar C.. Research Guide on Language Change, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1990.https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110875379

  19. (PDF) The Time Course of Language Change

    Similarly, over the period 1939-1979, language changed at an average measured. rate of 0.0011 bits/year, while the rate of change for individual decades ranges from. a low of 0.0039 bits/year (for ...

  20. The Study of Semantic Change and its Effect on Linguistic and ...

    Language is continuously changing. Words change their meaning over time and this process is known as semantic change. Change can occur both in the literal meaning and in the pragmatic use of words. In this research, semantic change is studied from a different perspective. Words that go through rapid semantic changes are the focus of this study.

  21. Language Variation and Change Research Papers

    In concluding, this paper questions the usefulness of a creole-specific language change process, integrating decreolization into a mainstream framework of language contact. Ultimately, the specificity of the creole-lexifier relationship can contribute to our understanding of language variation in language change. [Mayeux, O. 2018.

  22. Indoor Air Quality Topics in the Spotlight

    Climate change may worsen indoor air quality, and it may also introduce new problems as the severity of adverse outdoor conditions change Coronavirus There are straightforward steps that can be taken to reduce the potential for airborne transmission of COVID-19.

  23. Research Paper Writing: What plagues Indian research papers? Poor

    K.M. Ajith's first research paper, co-authored with his supervisor in 2005, was about mathematical physics they had worked out in quantum field theory. The U.K. journal to which the paper was ...

  24. SSC JE Paper-1 2024 Result Declared at ssc.gov.in, How to ...

    CHANGE LANGUAGE. English. ... The SSC JE Paper-2 will be conducted for candidates who qualified for paper 1 (Representational/ File Photo) The SSC Junior Engineer Recruitment Examination was conducted between June 5 to 7, 2024. As many as 11765 candidates have been shortlisted for Civil Engineering and 4458 for Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

  25. Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change

    The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay-related parental leave reserved exclusively for each ...

  26. (PDF) The Role of Gender in Language Change

    The paper ends with a critical evaluation of some arguments regarding the role of women in language change through the writer's view and opinion of an opening question depending on some works and ...

  27. JRFM

    Over the last few decades, remarkable technical advancements, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, have emerged. These tools have the ability to change the accounting process. This study aims to conduct a systematic literature review on using the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and eXtensible Business ...