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Indian English Evolution and Focusing Visible Through Power Laws
2017
Languages
New dialect emergence and focusing in language contact settings is difficult to capture and date in terms of global structural dialect stabilization. This paper explores whether diachronic power law frequency distributions can provide evidence of dialect evolution and new dialect focusing, by considering the quantitative frequency characteristics of three diachronic Indian English (IE) corpora (1970s-2008). The results demonstrate that IE consistently follows power law frequency distributions
doi:10.3390/languages2040026
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