Empirical foundations for a theory of language change

By U. Weinreich, W. Labov, Marvin I. Herzog. 2014

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Peaks Beyond Phonology: Adolescence, Incrementation, and Language Change (2009, background): “The choices, however, are not random and when examined quantitatively, systemic trends and patterns emerge that reveal ‘structural and ordered’ heterogeneity (Weinreich et al. 1968:100–101).”
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).”
Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey (2016, methodology): “Surveys and ethnographic research have been the main methods of data collection [61, 173, 174, 248, 254, 267].”
Phonetic bias in sound change (2011, background): “The actuation question of Weinreich et al. (1968), as in (1c), concerns the historically contingent appearance of a sound change in a particular place at a particular time.”
Language vitality: The weak theoretical underpinnings of what can be an exciting research area (2017, background): “…for integrating the scholarship on language vitality within evolutionary linguistics, where there is growing interest in the actuation question (Weinreich et al. 1968, McMahon 1994, Labov 2001) and ecological considerations are generally adduced to explain why particular evolutionary processes…”
Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (2006, background): “The variationist approach to sociolinguistics began during the 1960s, when Labov, working with Uriel Weinreich, developed a theory of language change (Weinreich et al. 1968).”
Deriving variation from grammar: A study of Finnish genitives (2000, background): “Second, there was the problem of explaining preferences: Studies of linguistic variation have achieved a high level of quantitative precision in describing the systematic patterns of \orderly heterogeneity" (Weinreich et al. 1968, 100) that permeate human use of language.”
Variational pragmatics: Studying the impact of social factors on language use in interaction (2009, unknown): “Variational pragmatics on the other hand, like variational linguistics in general, conceives language as ‘‘orderly heterogeneity’’ (Weinreich et al. 1968) and is interested in linguistic performance (or, maybe more precisely, ‘parole’).”