The initiation and incrementation of sound change: Community-oriented momentum-sensitive learning
This article presents a theory of the initiation and incrementation mechanisms whereby individual phonetic innovations become community-wide sound changes. The theory asserts that language learners are community-oriented and momentum-sensitive: they are community-oriented in that they acquire and ob...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/627 |