Language monitoring in bilinguals as a mechanism for rapid lexical divergence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2952027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Mark Ellison (0000-0001-7514-0612, Australian National University), Luisa Miceli (0000-0002-7923-7929, Australian National University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 255-287 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2017.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W2626661614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 46 |
Recent studies have highlighted divergent change as a more common outcome of language contact than previously thought. While convergent change is often attributed to bilingual cognitive pressures, divergent change has usually been explained by appealing to sociocultural factors. We argue that the effects of social pressures on linguistic systems must nevertheless be realized in how language is processed in the individual bilingual speaker and, therefore, that divergent \nchange is also ultimately rooted in bilingual cognition. Since lexical forms are most susceptible to \ncontact-induced divergent change we focus on their production. We begin by developing a cognitive \nmodel that combines Grosjean’s language mode with a later output-monitoring stage. The parameters to the model are then fit to the results of an experiment in which bilinguals are seen to avoid shared lexical items. These best-fit parameters form the basis of a series of multi-agent simulations that show rapid divergence in the lexica of languages with large proportions of bilinguals. \nWe consider the implications of these findings for the psycholinguistic study of bilingual lexical selection, the construction of phylogenies, and the reconstruction of language family histories
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Divergence (linguistics · Focus (optics · Language change · Language contact · Language production · Language shift · Linguistics · Mechanism (biology · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |