Contact-induced sound change: analysis of the alveolar lateral fricative in Yami by Li-Fang Lai, Huiju Hsu

“…Language change manifests itself in various ways. The majority of studies on language change in Yami, an endangered Austronesian language spoken on Orchid Island, Taiwan, have centered on the rapid language shift from Yami to Mandarin within the speech community (Chen 1998, Li and Ho 1988, Lin 2007, Rau 1995). …”
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Grammatical Words and Spreading of Contexts: Evidence from the Spanish Preposition <i>a</i> by Concepción Company Company

“…The paper shows that when grammatical words are involved, <i>context</i> is then the unit of language change. Certain changes consist in an active spreading of a form to new contexts, without changing the category or grammatical status of the form; in these cases, context must be considered the unit of language change. …”
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A step forward in understanding pas: the post-verbal negator in Old Occitan from the perspective of communication and rhetorical strategizing by Paoli, S

“…In recent years, within the cognitive linguistics approach there has been a trend of scholarly research committed to exploring the motivation for language change. The way in which people use language in communication, together with principles of human categorization, are the locus where language change and innovations are to be found. …”

Variación, reanálisis y analogía en la adquisición de la fonología del español by Dra. Minerva Oropeza Escobar

“…The aim of the study is to determine whether those notions can lead to a better understanding of the acquisition of phonology; that is, if both fields (phonology acquisition and language change) can benefit from a shared conceptual framework. …”
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Kurzrezensionen

“…A Darwinian approach to language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. 329 Seiten. …”
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LANGUANGE CHANGE IN ORAL CULTURE OF MINANGKABAU SOCIETY: A DIACHRONIC STUDY (PERUBAHAN BAHASA DALAM BUDAYA LISAN MASYARAKAT MINANGKABAU: SEBUAH STUDI DIAKRONIS ) by Silvia Djonnaidi

“…This article shows the language change which occurs in the oral culture of Minangkabau society. …”
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“I Speak My Language My Way!”—Young People’s Kunwok by Alexandra Marley

“…Comparing the speech of young adults and children with that of their elders through a multigenerational corpus has revealed a language change in progress (demonstrated both in real time and apparent time). …”
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Bilingualism and the Serbo-German Bilingual Community of Serbs in Ingolstadt by Julijana Vuletić

“…Reflecting upon the research results we may conclude that our investigated sample, which can expand onto the entire research corpus, can be regarded as being almost in the second last phase of the language change process. A rather significant part of the corpus in the further development of the language change process would certainly be the third generation of working migrants. …”
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An introduction to the nature and functions of language / by Jackson, Howard, 1945-, author, Stockwell, Peter, author

The case for an emergentist approach by Bertus van Rooy, Haidee Kruger

“…The properties of constructions, and how they can come into being with recourse to only domain-general cognitive processes, are presented, before the implications of this view for language structure, language acquisition, language evolution and language change are discussed. Additional points of difference with the nativist position are highlighted, including the assumptions of non-parsimonious storage and the centrality of communicative interaction in the ontogenetic and phylogenetic development of language. …”
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Wortgeografischer Wandel im Schweizerdeutschen. Sommersprossen, Küchenzwiebel und Schmetterling 70 Jahre nach dem SDS by Britta Juska-Bacher

“…Comparing GIS-maps of SDS and online data of the dialectal lexemes for freckles, onion and butterfly, language change over the last century becomes apparent, with striking convergence tendencies towards standard German, but also a Swiss German dialect expanding its range. …”
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An introduction to historical linguistics / by 366681 Crowley, Terry, Bowern, Claire, 1977-

An introduction to language / by Fromkin, Victoria, author, Rodman, Robert, author, Hyams, Nina M., 1952-, author

Language Use and Language Attitudes of Sumbawanese Speakers in Bali by Sebastianus Menggo, I Made Suastra

“…Keywords: Balinese, language use, language attitude, language change, Sumbawanese…”
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Spontanschreibung im Chat by Gabriela Burri

“…On one hand, the spelling forms found here show some language change tendencies in the German spoken language. …”
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Pragmatic markers: the missing link between language and Theory of Mind by Rubio-Fernandez, Paula

“…The developmental path from joint attention to common ground parallels language change, with demonstrative forms giving rise to definite articles. …”
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Introduction by Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen, Mar Garachana Camarero

“…It is a commonly known fact that language change can be observed at different linguistic levels, which correspond to the traditional disciplines of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics [...]…”
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Anmerkungen zum Salienzbegriff in der Soziolinguistik by Peter Auer

“…In this paper I argue that the psychological notion of salience should be kept strictly apart from its causes and effects (on language change or language accommodation). I further argue that we should distinguish between physiological, cognitive and sociolinguistic factors contributing to salience. …”
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Officialisation de la langue amazighe en Algérie : impact sur les attitudes et représentations sociolinguistiques de quelques locuteurs algériens by Mourad Bektache

“…By examining the language attitudes of Berber and Arabic speakers, we will try to understand how the representations of this language change in the context of its “officialization”. …”
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Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts? by John Bollenbacher, Niklas Loynes, John Bryden

“…We also find that the extent of this language change positively correlates with the number of comments and emotional interactions on Facebook. …”
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