The News:
Language Experts Study the Future of Past Tense
All Things Considered, October 10, 2007 · Two new studies published Wednesday in the journal Nature explore how languages evolve.
Tecumseh Fitch, a professor of psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, studies the evolution of language and wrote the introduction for the Nature studies.
Fitch talks with Robert Siegel.
The Research:
Read the research articles behind this story in the journal Nature.
1. Linguistics: An invisible hand
2. Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language
3. Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Research news: Language Experts Study the Future of Past Tense
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