Is the rate of linguistic change constant?

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Change is inevitable--change is constant.

The Only Constant Is Change

describe how software has penetrated so many of the systems and services that we as consumers often take for granted—airliners, mass transit, and washing machines—where it lies hidden in plain sight. Meanwhile, many of our other authors frequently write about the enabling technologies that have allowed software to become so influential—the methods, tools, and practices that enable software deve...

Change is the only constant.

‘Change’ is a word we hear a lot these days, especially when it comes to fundamental reforms in the Australian health industry. As this issue goes to print there is much discussion around the national health reform agenda, in particular the recently announced National Health and Hospitals Network. Over the next 12 months the merits and drawbacks of the reforms will be discussed and debated by p...

Speech rate effects on linguistic change

This work is couched in the Articulatory Phonology theoretical framework, and it discusses the possible role of speech rate on diachronic change from antepenultimate stress words to penultimate stress words. In this kind of change, there is deletion of the medial (or final) post-stressed vowel of the antepenultimate stress words. Our results suggest that speech rate can explain this historical ...