Transmission and Diffusion.

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

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2007

Volume

83

Issue

2

Pages

344-387

DOI

10.1353/lan.2007.0082

DOI registrant

Cambridge University Press

Link

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

Cited from

biology_ecology

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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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.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Labov's abstract supplies the faithful-transmission principle behind the dialect clause only; it says nothing about standard tools, first authors, or a colonizing power's legal substrate.

    “The transmission of linguistic change within a speech community is characterized by incrementation within a faithfully reproduced pattern characteristic of the family tree model, while diffusion across communities shows weakening of the original pattern and a loss of structural features.”

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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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