84
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LLC
2010
14 years 5 months ago
2010
Models and concepts from biology have informed the study of language change for several centuries. In this article, I take a comparative look across the disciplines of historical ...
96
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ACL
1998
15 years 9 days ago
1998
The paper argues that language change can be explained through the stochasticity observed in real-world natural language use. This thesis is demonstrated by modeling language use ...