Language Contact and Change (2/10/2022)
Lecture: (by Graham Neubig)
- Dialects, Nonnative writing
- Cognates and Borrowing
- Computational Models of Transliteration, Cognates and Borrowing
- Bilingual Embedding, Lexicon Induction (incl. models of cognates)
Language in 10: German
Slides: Language Change Slides
Discussion:
Option 1: Read "How Efficiency Shapes Human Language". Think about a language you speak. What are some elements of this language that you think are efficient, and some that you think are inefficient?
Option 2: Pick a language that you speak, read about its history, and in particular how this language influenced other languages
- are there languages that historically borrowed words from your language?
- can you find specific examples of words?
- could you recognize these loanwords in other languages based on their new form?
- can you guess what were phonological and morphological adaptation processes that the loanword had to undergo to assimilate in the new language?
References:
- Reference: Letter from Isaac Newton (Newton, 1672)
- Reference: Letter from Wilbur Wright (Wright 1899)
- Reference: Why do Languages Change (Trask 2010)
- Reference: How Efficiency Shapes Human Language (Gibson 2019)
- Reference: Google Style List (Google, referenced 2022)
- Reference: No Country for Old Members: User Lifecycle and Linguistic Change in Online Communities (Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al. 2013)
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