Tracking the acceptance of neologisms in German: Psycholinguistic factors and their correspondence with corpus-linguistic findings

Abstract Neologisms, i.e., new words or meanings, are finding their way into everyday language use all the time. In the process, already existing elements of a language are recombined or linguistic material from other languages is borrowed. But are borrowed neologisms accepted similarly well by the...

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Main Authors: Sascha Wolfer, Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-09-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01977-4