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Internal and external forces in language change  (Make Corrections)  
Charles D. Yang Yale University



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Abstract: If every productive form of linguistic expression can be described by some idealized human grammar, an individuals's variable linguistic behavior (Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog, 1968) can be modeled as a statistical distribution of multiple idealized grammars. The distribution of grammars is determined by the interaction between the biological constraints on human grammar and the properties of linguistic data in the environment during the course of language acquisition. Such interaction can be... (Update)

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@misc{ yale-internal,
  author = "Charles Yang Yale",
  title = "Internal and External Forces in Language Change",
  url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/486846.html" }
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