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Publication details [#57769]

Stanford, James N. and Laurence A. Kenny. 2013. Revisiting transmission and diffusion: An agent-based model of vowel chain shifts across large communities. Language Variation and Change 25 (2) : 119–153.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult | adult-child conversation | interaction properties | language shift | speech community

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper provides the first agent-based simulation of vowel chain shifts across large cspeech ommunities, offering an economic reinterpretation of Labov's (2007) concepts of transfer, circulation, and incrementation.