Transmission and Diffusion.

Labov, W. (2007). Transmission and Diffusion. Language, 83(2), 344-387.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2007

DOI

10.1353/lan.2007.0082

Link

https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2007.0082

Cited from

biology_ecology

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Primes

• Founder Effect
  • In colonization and linguistic dialects, the speech of the first settlers becomes the regional accent, and the legal substrate of a colonizing power persists long after independence.

    This sourceDocuments how the speech of founding settler populations becomes the durable basis of regional dialects via faithful child transmission, the linguistic founder effect.

Domain-specific

• Wave model
  • … observable transfers from Neighboring dialects share different subsets of sound changes because each innovation spread across a different geographic radius. to A linguist combines dated innovations, contact evidence and isoglosses and does not use the wave metaphor as a precise diffusion equation without data..

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