Imperfect language learning facilitates morphological simplification: experimental evidence

• Datum: 2017-03-21 kl 15:15 – 17:00
• Plats: Engelska parken 9-2029
• Föreläsare: Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Uppsala University
• Arrangör: General Linguistics, Dept of Linguistics and Philology
• Kontaktperson: Harald Hammarström
• Föreläsning

Recently, several influential theories have emerged that link the likelihood of a language to accrue or to lose morphological complexity to a range of social factors. Most prominently, a large proportion of adult language learners in a population is expected to favour morphological simplification. The evidence in support of this hypothesis comes mostly from typological data, and it is not entirely