Real-Time Demonstration of the Interaction among Internal and External Factors in Language Change: A Corpus Study
Real-Time Demonstration of the Interaction among Internal and External Factors in Language Change: A Corpus Study
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语言变化中内部和外部因素相互作用的实时演示：语料库研究
DOI：
10.1075/aral.19.1.08har
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Shin
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Shin
本研究从交互作用假说的角度考察了语言内部因素和外部因素之间的交互作用。交互作用假说认为，在语言变异和变化中，内部因素是相互独立的，内部因素和外部因素也是相互独立的，而外部因素是相互关联的。到目前为止，还没有详尽的研究假设的基础上，大量的自发言语在大规模语料库，和互动的初始阶段的语言变化一直研究不足。因此，我进行了多变量的统计检查这种互动的重点是最近的语言变化在日本动词形式（sa插入，ra删除，并重新插入），通过补充使用两个大规模的语料库：在线全文数据库的会议记录和语料库的自发日本。研究结果部分支持了交互作用假说，即内外因素之间的独立性始终保持不变。另一方面，观察到了一些因素之间的相互作用，并且在一种情况下没有观察到预测的外部因素之间的相互作用。内部因素和外部因素之间的相互作用从未得到证实，这一事实表明两者在控制语言变异和变化方面的作用存在明确的分工。在此基础上，笔者提出了一个修正的交互作用假说，即假设内外因素之间存在类别内交互作用，而不存在类别间交互作用。
This research examines the interaction among internal and external factors in light of the interaction hypothesis, which assumes that, in language variation and change, internal factors are mutually independent, internal factors and external factors are also mutually independent, while external factors are interrelated. Thus far, there has been no exhaustive examination of the hypothesis based on the enormous amount of spontaneous speech in large-scale corpora, and interactions in the initial phases of language change have been underresearched. I therefore conducted a multivariate statistical examination of interactions of this kind focusing on recent language changes in Japanese verb forms (sa-Insertion, ra-Deletion, and re-Insertion) by making complementary use of two large-scale corpora: the on-line full-text database of the minutes of the Diet and the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese. The results partially support the interaction hypothesis in the sense that the independence between internal and external factors is maintained consistently. On the other hand, some interactions between factors are observed, and the predicted interaction between external factors is not observed in one case. The fact that interactions between internal and external factors is never attested is indicative of a clear-cut division between the two in their roles governing language variation and change. Based on the results, I propose a revised interaction hypothesis, which assumes the existence of intracategorial interaction and the nonexistence of inter-categorial interaction among internal and external factors.