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Shifty Talk: Probing The Process Of Word Evolution, Science News
 









Excerpts: In fact, frequency of word usage exerts a "lawlike" influence on the
rapidity of language evolution, the research teams conclude in the Oct. 11
Nature. This discovery offers a new tool for retracing the history of major
language families, reconstructing ancient tongues, and predicting which words
will undergo future alterations. (...) "Our results indicate that languages can
evolve in such an orderly fashion that simple mathematical descriptions capture
their behavior," Lieberman says. "A language's irregularities reveal the
mechanisms shaping its evolution."
Source: Shifty Talk: Probing The Process Of Word Evolution[
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071013/fob2.asp ], Bruce Bower,
ScienceNews, 07/10/13
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