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ROA 793-1205

Probability in language change

Kie Zuraw <kie at ucla.edu>

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Abstract:
This paper has a small amount of OT content.

Overview of the role of probability in the study of language
change: probability as a tool for determining language relatednes
s; changes in probabilities over time; the role of item
frequency in change; the effect of language agents' behavior
in a probabilistic environment on change.


Comments: In Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, Stefanie Jannedy, editors, Probabilistic Linguistics. 2003. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 139-176.  (pre-print version)
Keywords: probability, frequency
Areas: Historical Linguistics
Type: Book Chapter

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