Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora
Newberry et al. (Detecting evolutionary forces in language change, 'Nature' 551, 2017) tackle an important but difficult problem in linguistics, the testing of selective theories of language change against a null model of drift. Having applied a test from population genetics (the Frequency...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/909 |