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oa Synchrony/diachrony, frequency and analogy
Reaction to Freek Van de Velde
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Nederlandse Taalkunde, Volume 22, Issue 1, Mar 2017, p. 75 - 78
Abstract
Abstract
The synchrony/diachrony issue must be sidestepped, since the ultimate question to be studied is: which psycholinguistic limitations does the human brain impose on its representation of language. These limitations involve frequency and analogy, which are the cause of ill-understood chaos-theoretic patterns of order. In particular, analogy must be formalised, and its interaction with frequency must be further investigated.
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