Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach

By D. Lightfoot. 2002

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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).”
Framework-Free Grammatical Theory (2009, background): “Most of these constraints have very good functional explanations, i.e., explanations deriving from different chances of being replicated in language use (Croft 2000).”
Language emergence: Implications for applied linguistics - Introduction to the special issue (2006, background): “Frequency is the driving force of language change: (1) Frequency of use leads to weakening of semantic force by habituation; (2) Phonological changes of reduction and fusion of grammaticizing constructions are conditioned by their high frequency; (3) Increased frequency conditions a greater autonomy”
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper (2009, methodology): “Equally important is that convention is not airtight as a coordination device (Croft, 2000, 2009).”
Language as a Complex Adaptive System (2000, background): “Language change is a cultural evolutionary process (Christiansen & Chater, in press; Croft, 2000).”
Innovative constructions in Dutch Turkish: An assessment of ongoing contact-induced change* (2009, background): “Synchronically, in producing an utterance, there are two possibilities (Croft, 2000, p. 29): either we comply with the conventions of the speech community we belong to and thus produce a conventional utterance, or we do not, and thus produce an unconventional utterance.”
ARTICLES: Studying Cognition in Flux: A Historical Treatment of Fu in the Shifting Structure of Oksapmin Mathematics (2005, background): “Though there is a world of difference between adaptations in the origins of species and adaptations of symbolic forms that have emerged in the social history of mathematics, we believe that the parallelism is instructive (for more on this view, see Croft, 2000; Hull, 1988; Werner, 1948).”
Competition and Selection in Language Evolution (2002, background): “On the other hand, a language is “acquired” piecemeal, selectively, and recreated in a way that makes every 5 Croft (2000) uses the term lingueme, defined as utterance, to identify units of selection in a language.”
Evolutionary Linguistics (2008, background): “…also faced with the problem of analyzing the semantic contribution of words, morphemes, and constructions from a complex communicative situation, and they may reanalyze the mapping between form and meaning in those units via different types of form-function reanalysis (Croft 2000, chapters 4–5).”
User Demographics and Language in an Implicit Social Network (2012, background): “Repeated interactions with other language speakers inﬂuence the way the person speaks (Baxter et al., 2006; Bybee, 2010), and the inﬂuence is observable on all the levels of the language representation (Croft, 2000).”
Logical and typological arguments for Radical Construction Grammar (2005, background): “First, language change is gradual; there is overwhelming evidence in support of this view (see e.g. Croft 2000, §3.2 and references therein).”