Smooth Signals and Syntactic Change

A large body of recent work argues that considerations of information density predict various phenomena in linguistic planning and production. However, the usefulness of an information theoretic account for explaining diachronic phenomena has remained under-explored. Here, we test the idea that spea...

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Main Authors: Joel C. Wallenberg, Rachael Bailes, Christine Cuskley, Anton Karl Ingason
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/2/60