Empirical foundations for an integrated study of language evolution
Empirical foundations for an integrated study of language evolution
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语言演化综合研究的实证基础
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2020
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通讯作者：
Betsy Sneller
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Gareth Roberts;Betsy Sneller
半个世纪前，Uriel Weinreich、William Labov和Marvin Herzog为语言变化的研究提出了一个纲领性的愿景。这包括为该领域建立五个基本问题，以及从关注个人特征到关注人口水平变化的根本转变（基于有序异质性的概念）。他们还表达了一个明确的愿望，希望看到一个完整的语言变化的进化研究。尽管如此，语言进化和文化进化的新领域与他们的工作中出现的社会语言学领域几乎没有联系。在这里，我们根据他们的五个问题，为一个更加一体化的未来制定了一个计划。我们在现代社会语言学的每个问题，并确定有前途的理论交流点，比较与丁伯根的四个问题，这在进化科学中发挥了类似的作用。最后，我们提出了文化进化实验，使实证的进展。
Half a century ago, Uriel Weinreich, William Labov, and Marvin Herzog laid out a programmatic vision for the study of language change. This included establishing five fundamental problems for the field and a radical shift from a focus on idiolects to a focus on population-level change (grounded in their concept of orderly heterogeneity). They also expressed an explicit desire to see an integrated evolutionary study of language change. In spite of this, the newer fields of language evolution and cultural evolution make little contact with the field of sociolinguistics that emerged out of their work. Here we lay out a program, grounded in their five problems, for a more integrated future. We situate each problem in modern sociolinguistics and identify promising points for theoretical exchange, making comparisons with Tinbergen’s four questions, which play a similar role in the evolutionary sciences. Finally, we propose cultural-evolutionary experiments for making empirical progress.
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Cheshire J
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Cheshire J