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Creation of regions for dialect features using a cellular automaton
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Complex systems in the history of American English
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Kretzschmar 2009 has demonstrated that language in use, speech as opposed to linguistic systems as usually described by linguists, satisfies the conditions for complex systems as defined in sciences such as physics, evolutionary biology, and economics. This finding has strong methodological consequences for study of the history of American English. This paper discusses implications for the initial formation of American English and its varieties, with reference to Schneider 2007, as the product of random interactions between speakers of different input varieties of English. It also considers westward expansion of American dialects, with reference to Kretzschmar 1996, as an effect of proximity, especially along settlement routes. Finally, it describes how sociolinguistic discussions of more recent change should also be understood as occurring within the different intersecting scales of complex systems of speech in America.
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PE English
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URL: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/130574/ http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/130574/1/130574.pdf
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Simulation of the complex system of cultural interaction: digital visualizations
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