LLC
2010
13 years 6 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 24 days 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 ...