Detecting evolutionary forces in language change

Mitchell G. Newberry, Christopher A. Ahern, Robin Clark and Joshua B. Plotkin ()
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Mitchell G. Newberry: University of Pennsylvania
Christopher A. Ahern: University of Pennsylvania
Robin Clark: University of Pennsylvania
Joshua B. Plotkin: University of Pennsylvania

Nature, 2017, vol. 551, issue 7679, 223-226

Abstract: Analyses of digital corpora of annotated texts reveal the influence of stochastic drift versus selection in grammatical shifts in English and provide a general method for quantitatively testing theories of language change.

Date: 2017
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