Explaining language change : an evolutionary approach

By W. Bruce Croft. 2000

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The Dynamics of Second Language Emergence: Cycles of Language Use, Language Change, and Language Acquisition (2008, background): “Analyses of diachronic processes of grammaticization (Hopper & Traugott, 2003), complexification (Dahl, 2004), and language change (Bybee & Hopper, 2001; Croft, 2000; Mufwene, 2001), have always focused on dynamic usage.”
Statistical physics of social dynamics (2007, background): “2002), while an evolutionary version of the Naming Game has been introduced in (Lipowski and Lipowska, 2008). A very interesting approach to language change has been proposed in (Baxter et al., 2006; Croft, 2000), based on an utterance selection model. Another interesting approach to language dynami”
Codeswitching and language change: One thing leads to another? (2005, background): “All theories of language change are skeptical, however, about what can be achieved in the way of prediction (for instance Croft, 2000, p.54; Field, this volume; Weinreich et al., 1968, pp.99 – 100, 186).”
Evolutionary social science and universal Darwinism (2006, background): “11 advances have been achieved in this broad area of research, which recently Croft (2000) has described.”
Language as a Complex Adaptive System (2000, background): “The closer we can model human natural sensori-motor behavior the more realistic the vowel systems become.”
FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2002, unknown): “It is similarly the driving force of other us-age-based accounts of language change (Boyland, 1996; Croft, 2000; Kemmer & Israel, 1994).”
Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, methodology): “This perspective is consistent with much work in functional and typological linguistics (e.g., Bever & Langendoen 1971; Croft 2000; Givón 1998; Hawkins 2004; Heine & Kuteva 2002).”
A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology (2006, background): “…view is shared by other more general approaches to language structure (e.g. Wildgen 1990; Keller 1994; Cooper 1999; Haspelmath 1999; Kirby 1999; Croft 2000; and Bod et al. 2003), and by many whose primary focus is sound patterns (e.g. Lindblom et al. 1984; Lindblom 1992; Ohala 1989, 1993;…”
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper (2009, unknown): “Equally important is that convention is not airtight as a coordination device (Croft, 2000, 2009).”
Language emergence: Implications for applied linguistics - Introduction to the special issue (2006, background): “…with new pragmatic associations, leading to semantic change; (5) Autonomy of a frequent phrase makes it more entrenched in the language and often conditions the preservation of otherwise obsolete morphosyntactic characteristics (Boyland 1996; Bybee 2000; Croft 2000; Kemmer and Israel 1994).”