Mechanisms of Linguistic Change AThe changes that have caused the most disagreement are those in pronunciation. We have various sources of evidence for the pronunciations of earlier times, such as thespellings, the treatment of words borrowed from other languages or borrowed by them, the description...
we find there are always large-scale regularities in the changes: for example, over a certain period of time, just about all the long [a:] vowels in a language may change into long [e:] vowels, or all the [b] consonants in a certain position (for example at the end of...
CIt is also possible that fashion plays a part in the process of change. It certainly plays a part in the spread of change: one person imitates another, and people with the most prestige are most likely to be imitated, so that a change that takes place in one social group may be imita...
2006b: Reflections on language contact, areal diffusion, and mechanisms of linguistic change, en B. Caron y P. Zima (eds.), Sprachbund in the West African Sahel. Louvain-Paris, PEETERS: 23-36.Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 2006b. Reflections on language contact, areal diffusion, and mechanisms ...
Historical Mechanisms of Syntactic Change This study explores mechanisms for syntactic changes through analyzing YU elision phenomena from Commentaries on Mencius. Zhao Qi, the commentator of the E... MK Yoon 被引量: 0发表: 1988年 Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: The nature of syn...
Long-term memory formation is a major function of sleep. Based on evidence from neurophysiological and behavioral studies mainly in humans and rodents, we consider the formation of long-term memory during sleep as an active systems consolidation process
We introduce a deceptively simple behavioral task that robustly identifies two qualitatively different groups within the general population. When presented with an isochronous train of random syllables, some listeners are compelled to align their own concurrent syllable production with the perceived rate, ...
Linguists have proposed that language learner behavior does not reflect a single system, but "is a complex of quite different [linguistic modules] each obe... BG Linford - 《University of Montana》 被引量: 3发表: 2009年 What animals can teach us about human language: the phonological continui...
deprivation during infancy [83], as well as difficulties in acquiring and producing language in the absence of linguistic input and symbolic expression [84]. Research studies conducted in human children who have experienced institutional care and were deprived of psychosocial input support this ...
Cognitive and behavioural flexibility permit the appropriate adjustment of thoughts and behaviours in response to changing environmental demands. Brain mechanisms enabling flexibility have been examined using non-invasive neuroimaging and behavioural app