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Incorporating tone in the calculation of phonotactic probability
This paper investigates how the ordering of tone relative to the segmental string influences the calculation of phonotactic probability.
Actuation without production bias
We show that, while the dynamics conditioned by production bias are not unique, it is not the case that all perturbing forces have the same dynamics: in particular, if social weight is a function of individual teachers and the correlation between a teacher's social weight and the extent to which they realize a production bias is weak, change is unlikely to propagate.
Inducing a lexicon of sociolinguistic variables from code-mixed text
Sociolinguistics is often concerned with how variants of a linguistic item (e. g., \textit{nothing} vs. \textit{nothin{'}}) are used by different groups or in different situations.
Topic and audience effects on distinctively Scottish vocabulary usage in Twitter data
Sociolinguistic research suggests that speakers modulate their language style in response to their audience.
Bias and population structure in the actuation of sound change
We find that population structure itself can act as a source of stability, but that both stability and change are possible only when both types of bias are active, suggesting that it is possible to understand why sound change occurs at some times and not others as the population-level result of the interplay between forces promoting each outcome in individual speakers.
