Indian English Evolution and Focusing Visible Through Power Laws

Indian English Evolution and Focusing Visible Through Power Laws

New dialect emergence and focusing in language contact settings is difficult to capture and date in terms of global structural dialect stabilization. This paper explores whether diachronic power law frequency distributions can provide evidence of dialect evolution and new dialect focusing, by consid...

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Main Authors: Vineeta Chand, Devin Kapper, Sumona Mondal, Shantanu Sur, Rana D. Parshad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-11-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
language contact
power laws
World English
Indian English
diachronic
corpus linguistics
lexical diversity
dialect formation
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/2/4/26

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