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Language Change

Language Change is a diachronic linguistic phenomenon consisting of alterations in the structural, lexical, or functional properties of a language over time, distinguished within historical linguistics by its systematic and often internally motivated development across speech communities, particularly as observed in the evolution of Hispanic languages from Latin to its modern variants.

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The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world

Choice Reviews Online · 1995 · 3.8K citations

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Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden et al. · Science · 2010 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Nick C. Ellis · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 2002 · 2.2K citations · Full text

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The Social Motivation of a Sound Change

William Labov · WORD · 1963 · 2.1K citations

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Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

Wolfgang Haak, Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson et al. · Nature · 2015 · 2K citations · Full text

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  1. SA
    Sali A. Tagliamonte

    University of Toronto, Canada

    41 publications · 4.5K citations

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  2. RB
    Robert Blust

    University of Hawaii–West Oahu, United States

    27 publications · 2.4K citations

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  3. SK
    Simon Kirby

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    24 publications · 3.5K citations

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  4. JS
    Joseph Salmons

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    22 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. PT
    Peter Trudgill

    University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    20 publications · 3K citations

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  1. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    46 h-index

    141 publications

    15.2K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    37 h-index

    79 publications

    7.1K citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    36 h-index

    77 publications

    5.1K citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    34 h-index

    73 publications

    7.8K citations

  5. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    34 h-index

    81 publications

    6K citations

  6. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    34 h-index

    64 publications

    10.4K citations

  7. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    34 h-index

    80 publications

    4.4K citations

  8. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    33 h-index

    72 publications

    5.4K citations

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  1. Language

    343 publications · 43.3K citations

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  2. Language Variation and Change

    166 publications · 17.7K citations

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 94 publications · 18.9K citations

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  4. Oceanic Linguistics

    108 publications · 6.4K citations

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  5. Language in Society

    100 publications · 11.8K citations

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