Joel C Wallenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 808477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel C Wallenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel C |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallenberg |
| SIGNATURE | WALLENBERG J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1837-6765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Noise resistance in communication
Smooth Signals and Syntactic Change
A large body of recent work argues that considerations of information density predict various phenomena in linguistic planning and production. However, the usefulness of an information theoretic account for explaining diachronic phenomena has remained under-explored. Here, we test the idea that speakers prefer informationally uniform utterances on diachronic data from historical English and Icelandic. Our results show that: (i) the information de…
Extraposition is disappearing
This study describes a change in which relative clause extraposition is in the process of being lost in English, Icelandic, French, and Portuguese. This current change in progress has never been observed before, probably because it is so slow that it is undetectable without the aid of multiple diachronic parsed corpora (treebanks) with time depths of over 500 years each. Building on insights from Kiparsky (1995), the study shows that the change m…
Formal Metrics Meets the Boojum
Scrambling, LF, and phrase structure change in Yiddish
Extraposition is disappearing
This study describes a change in which relative clause extraposition is in the process of being lost in English, Icelandic, French, and Portuguese. This current change in progress has never been observed before, probably because it is so slow that it is undetectable without the aid of multiple diachronic parsed corpora (treebanks) with time depths of over 500 years each. Building on insights from Kiparsky (1995), the study shows that the change m…
Scrambling, LF, and phrase structure change in Yiddish
Scrambling, LF, and phrase structure change in Yiddish
Formal Metrics Meets the Boojum
Extraposition is disappearing
This study describes a change in which relative clause extraposition is in the process of being lost in English, Icelandic, French, and Portuguese. This current change in progress has never been observed before, probably because it is so slow that it is undetectable without the aid of multiple diachronic parsed corpora (treebanks) with time depths of over 500 years each. Building on insights from Kiparsky (1995), the study shows that the change m…
Noise resistance in communication
Smooth Signals and Syntactic Change
A large body of recent work argues that considerations of information density predict various phenomena in linguistic planning and production. However, the usefulness of an information theoretic account for explaining diachronic phenomena has remained under-explored. Here, we test the idea that speakers prefer informationally uniform utterances on diachronic data from historical English and Icelandic. Our results show that: (i) the information de…
Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · History (2 works) · Icelandic (2 works) · Language and cultural evolution (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works)