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Publication details [#61690]

Croft, William and Gareth J. Baxter. 2016. Modeling language change across the lifespan: Individual trajectories in community change. Language Variation and Change 28 (2) : 129–173.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | age | individual differences | language change | speech community

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

A mathematical model is used to explore three phenomena including language change over the lifespan: the apparent time construct, the adolescent peak, and two distinct individual change patterns -mainly gradual, conform to average community change or swiftly if at all-, rendering distinct poises between the unalike weighting of rival variants and adaptation extent to other speakers.