Principles of Linguistic Change: Cognitive and Cultural Factors

By W. Labov. 2010

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What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation (2012, background): “…cognitive factors as ones having to do with “information on states of affairs – on what is being said rather than on the manner or style of expression” (Labov 2010: 2).5 A measure of accessibility proposed by Givón (1983) is “Potential Referential Interference” (PRI), defined by Sun and Givón as…”
No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities (2013, background): “For instance, individuals might change their language as they age, while the community as a whole remains stable; or a change might be simultaneously adopted by all members of the community, or just by older members [25, 39, 40, 46, 47].”
Phonetic bias in sound change (2011, background): “One is tempted to associate this difference also with neogrammarian sound change, versus lexical diffusion (as Labov 1981 did).”