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Language Change, examines the way external factors have influenced and are influencing language change, focusing on how changing social contexts are reflected in language use.

Linguistic change. --- Taal --- Taalverandering. --- Evolutie. --- Historical linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Linguistic change --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Language and languages --- Changement linguistique

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Linguistic Change under Contact Conditions Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Languages in contact. --- Linguistic change. --- Historical linguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Languages in contact --- Linguistic change --- Langues en contact --- Changement linguistique --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Language and languages --- Areal linguistics

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It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on sign languages, leading to less structural variation in sign language structure as compared to spoken language structure. However, until recently, research on sign languages was limited to a number of (Western) sign languages. Before we can truly answer the question of whether modality effects do indeed cause less structural variation, it is necessary to investigate the similarities and differences that exist between sign languages in more detail and, especially, to include in this investigation less studied sign languages. The current research climate is testimony to a surge of interest in the study of a geographically more diverse range of sign languages. The volume reflects that climate and brings together work by scholars engaging in comparative sign linguistics research. The 11 articles discuss data from many different signed and spoken languages and cover a wide range of topics from different areas of grammar including phonology (word pictures), morphology (pronouns, negation, and auxiliaries), syntax (word order, interrogative clauses, auxiliaries, negation, and referential shift) and pragmatics (modal meaning and referential shift). In addition to this, the contributions address psycholinguistic issues, aspects of language change, and issues concerning data collection in sign languages, thereby providing methodological guidelines for further research. Although some papers use a specific theoretical framework for analyzing the data, the volume clearly focuses on empirical and descriptive aspects of sign language variation.

Sign language. --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics. --- Linguistic change. --- Langage par signes --- Variation (Linguistique) --- Psycholinguistique --- Changement linguistique --- Variation. --- linguistic typology. --- Linguistic change --- Psycholinguistics --- Sign language --- Variation

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Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener. While this emphasis on identifying the nature of intrinsic variation in speech has provided important insights into the origins of widely attested cross-linguistic sound changes, the nature of phonologization - the transition from intrinsic phonetic variation to extrinsic phonological encoding - remains largely unexplored. This volume showcases the current state of the art in phonologization research, bringing together work by leading scholars in sound change research from different disciplinary and scholarly traditions. The authors investigate the progression of sound change from the perspectives of speech perception, speech production, phonology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, computer science, statistics, and social and cognitive psychology. The book highlights the fruitfulness of collaborative efforts among phonologists and specialists from neighbouring disciplines in seeking unified theoretical explanations for the origins of sound patterns in language, as well as improved syntheses of synchronic and diachronic phonology.

Phonetics --- Phonologie --- Changement linguistique --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic change. --- Phonology. --- Klankverschuiving. --- Phonologie. --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Phonology --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology

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This volume draws together previously unpublished papers by linguists engaged in historical reconstruction. The main subject of the work is regularity and irregularity in the comparative method. A number of language families are represented.

Linguistic change --- Comparative linguistics --- Historical linguistics --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Language and languages --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Linguistique comparée --- Changement linguistique --- Comparative linguistics. --- Linguistic change. --- Historische taalwetenschap. --- Taalverandering. --- Regelmaat. --- Methodologie. --- Gesetzmä�igkeit. --- Kontrastive Linguistik. --- Sprachwandel. --- Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft. --- Historische Sprachwissenschaft.