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Frequency patterns of semantic change: corpus-based evidence of a near-critical dynamics in language change

It is generally believed that when a linguistic item acquires a new meaning, its overall frequency of use rises with time with an S-shaped growth curve. Yet, this claim has only been supported by a limited number of case studies. In this paper, we provide the first corpus-based large-scale confirmat...

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Autores principales: Feltgen, Q., Fagard, B., Nadal, J.-P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29291074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170830