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Publication details [#61502]

Hoekstra, Eric and Arjen P. Versloot. 2016. Attraction between words as a function of frequency and representational distance: Words in the bilingual brain. Linguistics 54 (6) : 1223–1240.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper proposes a model outlining the attractional power of dominant language words on their cognates in bilinguals' minority language as a function of their frequencies split by their formal disparity. The model is applied to the spread of nouns inferred from Frisian adjectives, with suffixes with or without alike Dutch equivalents.