语言变化中选择性力量的可靠检测和量化

IF 1 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Juan Guerrero Montero, Andres Karjus, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe
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摘要

语言变化是一种文化进化过程,其中语言变量的变体通过类似于突变、选择和遗传漂变的过程发生频率变化。在这项工作中,我们对语料库数据应用了一种最近引入的方法,以量化历史语言变化的特定实例中的选择强度。我们首先证明,在英语不规则动词的背景下,这种方法比以前应用的类似方法更可靠和可解释。我们进一步扩展了这项研究,以证明当语音简单性和语法简单性发生冲突时,对语音简单性的偏好压倒了对语法简单性的偏好。最后,以西班牙语拼写改革为例,我们表明该方法还可以检测选择优势变化的时间点,这是社会动机语言变化通常期望的特征。总之,这些结果表明如何使用历史语料库数据定量测试语言变化机制的假设。
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Reliable detection and quantification of selective forces in language change
Abstract Language change is a cultural evolutionary process in which variants of linguistic variables change in frequency through processes analogous to mutation, selection and genetic drift. In this work, we apply a recently-introduced method to corpus data to quantify the strength of selection in specific instances of historical language change. We first demonstrate, in the context of English irregular verbs, that this method is more reliable and interpretable than similar methods that have previously been applied. We further extend this study to demonstrate that a bias towards phonological simplicity overrides that favouring grammatical simplicity when these are in conflict. Finally, with reference to Spanish spelling reforms, we show that the method can also detect points in time at which selection strengths change, a feature that is generically expected for socially-motivated language change. Together, these results indicate how hypotheses for mechanisms of language change can be tested quantitatively using historical corpus data.
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CiteScore
4.20
自引率
12.50%
发文量
15
期刊介绍: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original corpus-based research focusing on theoretically relevant issues in all core areas of linguistic research, or other recognized topic areas. It provides a forum for researchers from different theoretical backgrounds and different areas of interest that share a commitment to the systematic and exhaustive analysis of naturally occurring language. Contributions from all theoretical frameworks are welcome but they should be addressed at a general audience and thus be explicit about their assumptions and discovery procedures and provide sufficient theoretical background to be accessible to researchers from different frameworks. Topics Corpus Linguistics Quantitative Linguistics Phonology Morphology Semantics Syntax Pragmatics.
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