The Adaptive Value Of Languages Non Linguistic Causes Of Language Diversity Volume Ii

Author : Antonio Benítez-Burraco,Steven Moran
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832546468

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The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-linguistic Causes of Language Diversity, volume II by Antonio Benítez-Burraco,Steven Moran Pdf

This Research Topic is the second volume of "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity". Please see the first volume here.The goal of this Research Topic is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity and, specifically, to explore the possibility that some aspects of the structure of languages may result from an adaptation to the natural and/or human-made environment. Traditionally, language diversity has been claimed to result from random, internally-motivated changes in language structure. Ongoing research suggests instead that different factors that are external to language can promote language change and ultimately account for aspects of language diversity. Accordingly, linguistic complexity has been found to correlate with features of the social environment, such as the absence of cross-cultural exchanges or the number of native speakers. Likewise, language structure could be influenced by the physical environment, as the effect of dry climates on tone seemingly shows. Finally, core properties of human languages, like duality of patterning, have been argued to result from iterative learning and cultural evolution, as research in village sign languages illustrates. On the whole this means that some aspects of languages could be an adaptation to ecological, social, or even technological niches. Eventually, certain gene alleles, provided that they bias language acquisition or processing, may affect language change through iterated cultural transmission, and ultimately, to language structure.

Author : Antonio Benítez-Burraco,Steven Moran
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889456314

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The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity by Antonio Benítez-Burraco,Steven Moran Pdf

The goal of this eBook is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity, and in particular, to explore the possibility that some aspects of the structure of languages may result from an adaptation to the natural and/or human-made environment. Traditionally, language diversity has been claimed to result from random, internally-motivated changes in language structure. However, ongoing research suggests instead that different factors that are external to language can promote language change and ultimately account for aspects of language diversity, specifically features of the social and physical environments. The contributions in this eBook discuss whether some aspects of languages are an adaptation to ecological, social, or even technological niches.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368411707

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The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity by Anonim Pdf

The goal of this eBook is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity, and in particular, to explore the possibility that some aspects of the structure of languages may result from an adaptation to the natural and/or human-made environment. Traditionally, language diversity has been claimed to result from random, internally-motivated changes in language structure. However, ongoing research suggests instead that different factors that are external to language can promote language change and ultimately account for aspects of language diversity, specifically features of the social and physical environments. The contributions in this eBook discuss whether some aspects of languages are an adaptation to ecological, social, or even technological niches.

Author : Christian Bentz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110560107

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Adaptive Languages by Christian Bentz Pdf

Languages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding strategies. This book explores a core property of linguistic coding – called lexical diversity. Parallel text corpora of overall more than 1800 texts written in more than 1200 languages are the basis for computational analyses. Different measures of lexical diversity are discussed and tested, and Shannon’s measure of uncertainty – the entropy – is chosen to assess differences in the distributions of words. To further explain this variation, a range of descriptive, explanatory, and grouping factors are considered in a series of statistical models. The first category includes writing systems, word-formation patterns, registers and styles. The second category includes population size, non-native speaker proportions and language status. Grouping factors further elicit whether the results extrapolate across – or are limited to – specific language families and areas. This account marries information-theoretic methods with a complex systems framework, illustrating how languages adapt to the varying needs of their users. It sheds light on the puzzling diversity of human languages in a quantitative, data driven and reproducible manner.

Author : Kendall A. King,Natalie Schilling-Estes,Lyn Wright Fogle,Jia J Lou,Barbara Soukup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 1461913748

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Sustaining Linguistic Diversity by Kendall A. King,Natalie Schilling-Estes,Lyn Wright Fogle,Jia J Lou,Barbara Soukup Pdf

In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. "Sustaining Linguistic Diversity" brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangerment -- how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, "Sustaining Linguistic Diversity" reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued.

Author : Sandra McKay,Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Publisher : Newbury House Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language and education
ISBN : UCSC:32106009054997

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Language Diversity, Problem Or Resource? by Sandra McKay,Sau-ling Cynthia Wong Pdf

Author : Kendall A. King
Publisher : Georgetown University Round Ta
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1589011929

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Sustaining Linguistic Diversity by Kendall A. King Pdf

Bringing together theoretical and empirical work this book provides an overview of defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. It covers best practices, methods and goals in documentation as well as language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations.

Author : Peter Siemund,Ingrid Gogolin,Monika Edith Schulz,Julia Davydova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272218

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Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas by Peter Siemund,Ingrid Gogolin,Monika Edith Schulz,Julia Davydova Pdf

This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for the field. Linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism are complex, mufti-faceted phenomena that need to be studied from different, complementary perspectives. The volume comprises a total of fourteen contributions from linguistic, educationist, and urban sociological perspectives and highlights the areas of language acquisition, contact and change, multilingual identities, urban spaces, and education. Linguistic diversity can be framed as a result of current processes of migration and globalization. As such the topic of the present volume addresses both a general audience interested in migration and globalization on a more general level, and a more specialized audience interested in the linguistic repercussions of these large-scale societal developments.

Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847692252

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Language Diversity in the Classroom by John Edwards Pdf

This book provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings. Particularly highlighted are the range and implications of attitudes towards languages and dialects - with close attention to nonstandard varieties - studies of Black English, foreign-language teaching and learning, as well as broad consideration of the assumptions and intentions underpinning bilingual and multicultural education.

Author : Ralph Ludwig,Steve Pagel,Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107041356

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Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact by Ralph Ludwig,Steve Pagel,Peter Mühlhäusler Pdf

This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide.

Author : Peter K. Austin,Julia Sallabank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139500838

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The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages by Peter K. Austin,Julia Sallabank Pdf

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Greek letter societies
ISBN : UOM:39015011981324

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American Scientist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ingrid Piller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199937257

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Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice by Ingrid Piller Pdf

Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to high levels of migration and economic globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and imparity of political participation, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice employs a case-study approach to real-world instances of linguistic injustice. Linguistic diversity is a universal characteristic of human language but linguistic diversity is rarely neutral; rather it is accompanied by linguistic stratification and linguistic subordination. Domains critical to social justice include employment, education, and community participation. The book offers a detailed examination of the connection between linguistic diversity and inequality in these specific contexts within nation states that are organized as liberal democracies. Inequalities exist not only between individuals and groups within a state but also between states. Therefore, the book also explores the role of linguistic diversity in global injustice with a particular focus on the spread of English as a global language. While much of the analysis in this book focuses on language as a means of exclusion, discrimination and disadvantage, the concluding chapter asks what the content of linguistic justice might be.

Author : Kim Potowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139491266

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Language Diversity in the USA by Kim Potowski Pdf

What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history, current demographics, community characteristics, economic status, and language maintenance of each language group, and looks ahead to the future of each language. The book challenges myths about the 'official' language of the USA, explores the degree to which today's immigrants are learning English and assimilating into the mainstream, and discusses the relationship between linguistic diversity and national unity. Written in a coherent and structured style, Language Diversity in the USA is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and education.

Author : Ronald James May,Hank Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015009037261

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Melanesia: Beyond Diversity by Ronald James May,Hank Nelson Pdf