LLC
2010
13 years 7 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 ...
ACL
1998
14 years 1 months 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 ...