
Published online:
16 December 2013
Published in print:
01 November 2015
Online ISBN:
9780191750243
Print ISBN:
9780199232819
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10.1 Cycling, Feedback, and Language Change 10.1 Cycling, Feedback, and Language Change
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10.2 Studying Systems Characterized by Feedback Cycling 10.2 Studying Systems Characterized by Feedback Cycling
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10.3 Testing a Model with Data: Change through Learning 10.3 Testing a Model with Data: Change through Learning
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10.4 Simulation as a Tool to Carry Out ‘Impossible’ Experiments 10.4 Simulation as a Tool to Carry Out ‘Impossible’ Experiments
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10.5 Exploring the Roles of Negative versus Positive Feedback 10.5 Exploring the Roles of Negative versus Positive Feedback
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10.6 Summary 10.6 Summary
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Chapter
10 Simulation as an Investigative Tool in Historical Phonology
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Andrew Wedel
Andrew Wedel
Linguistics, University of Arizona
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Andrew Wedel works in the Department of Linguistics and Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. He studies the way that feedback relationships shape language change. His most recent work on the functional load hypothesis has been published in the journals Language and Speech, and Cognition.
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149–163
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Published:05 May 2015
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Wedel, Andrew, 'Simulation as an Investigative Tool in Historical Phonology', in Patrick Honeybone, and Joseph Salmons (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology (2015; online edn, Oxford Academic, 16 Dec. 2013), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232819.013.033, accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Language change is a complex phenomenon, involving factors at multiple levels of organization and timescales interacting through positive and negative feedback loops. This chapter provides an overview of the use of computational simulation as a tool for exploring the predictions of models of language change.
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