language change
DiaHClust: an Iterative Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Identifying Stages in Language Change
... Often, the factors which go into determining a traditional top-down periodization have no di- rect connection to the linguistic phenomena un- der investigation. Moreover, the vast majority of traditional periodizations ...
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Modeling Language Change in Historical Corpora: The Case of Portuguese
... This paper presents a number of experiments to model changes in a historical Portuguese corpus composed of literary texts for the purpose of temporal text classification. Algorithms were trained to classify texts with ...
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Combining Data and Mathematical Models of Language Change
... on change, where a small number (1–2) of very com- plex models are analyzed, allowing for much more detailed models of language learning and usage than those considered here ...
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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
... on language change from historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics, computational approaches to the problem of language change – particularly how word forms and ...
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Language change and evolution in Online Social Networks
... of language change and variation over time and across cultures and ...in language, however, are manual, time-consuming and expensive, involving manual annotation, synthesis of results and collection ...
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Language Change in Tikopia & Maori
... MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF LANGUAGE CHANGE IN TIKOPIA & MAORI MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF LANGUAGE CHANGE IN TIKOPIA & MAORI* by Sheldon Klein, Michael A Kuppin & Kirby A Meives Computer Sciences Departm[.] ...
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Language Change as a Social Process: Diffusion Patterns of Lexical Innovations in Twitter
... of language change research has developed that sidesteps the size limitations of the traditional variationist study by employing computer modeling to try to understand language change on a ...
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Language Change in Hungarian Health Insurance Vocabulary
... The study summarises the most important results of a research completed in 2009. The theme of the diachronic investigation is the analysis of the formation and alteration of Hungarian health insurance vocabulary, while ...
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Slovene-English Language Contact and Language Change
... Slovene-English language contact in its many forms and contexts and from different ...for language change. Language change is something that happens all the ...of language ...
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The mediated innovation model: a framework for researching media influence in language change
... Linguistic innovations that arise contemporaneously in highly distant locations, such as quotative be like, have been termed ‘global linguistic variants’. This is not necessarily to suggest fully global usage, but to ...
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Challenges of language change and variation: towards an extended treebank of Medieval French
... As language evolution is not linear, some declining phenomena may rise again some decades later, preventing a straight-forward modelling of language ...of language preparing the contemporary French, ...
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A Conceptual Spaces Model of Socially Motivated Language Change
... in language use, and they have devel- oped articulated theories of how meaning and ideo- logical structure mediate the relation between social change and language ...of language change ...
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Measuring and Modeling Language Change
... of language history ...of language change ...measuring language change by comparing the speech of individuals of various ages ...of language change, but in the interest of ...
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Classical and modern Arabic corpora: Genre and language change
... and language types: Arabic By Computer; the Corpus of Contemporary Arabic; the Arabic Internet Corpus; the World Wide Arabic Corpus; the Arabic Discourse Treebank; the Arabic Learner Corpus; the Arabic Children’s ...
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THE DYNAMICS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHANGE FROM THE OLD ERA TO THE DIGITAL AGE
... At lexical and semantic levels, some old words survive until now, some are no longer used, and many new words appear. For example, nice used to mean ignorant, vulgar used to mean ordinary, and sophisticated used to mean ...
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Times Are Changing: Investigating the Pace of Language Change in Diachronic Word Embeddings
... NYT shows a very nice circular structure of neigh- borhoods but also how some years lie closer to- gether than others. For instance the years 2008- 2010 can be found very close together whereas 2011 having larger gaps to ...
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HistoBankVis: Detecting Language Change via Data Visualization
... As part of a concrete case study, we are cur- rently working with HistoBankVis to investigate the interaction between subject case and word or- der. Although Icelandic is generally taken to have changed only little with ...
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Syntactic variation in French: diglossia and language change
... (b) Interest in syntactic variation within specifically spoken language = recent development, e.g., GARS (Groupe aixois de recherches en syntaxe; Claire Blanche-Benveniste) looking at VP-related valency variation ...
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Creating a new town koine : children and language change in Milton Keynes
... claimed from the Zuyder Zee in 1930, 1942, and 1957, reveals a very different pattern from that of the Norwegian new towns. In each case, it seems that there was a distinct break between the settlers’ strongly regional ...
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YEAR 8 – LANGUAGE CHANGE – LESSON 1
... Outcome will be a brief analysis of a written piece and a piece of fictional writing using dialect words and phrases.S. To explore and analyse how English language has changed through [r] ...
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