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Peer reviewedSantorini, Beatrice – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Examines the rate of phrase structure change in Yiddish, using quantitative methods to estimate the rate of change of structurally ambiguous verb clauses. Four subcases of phrase structure change are distinguished, three of which provide strong evidence for the Constant Rate Hypothesis of linguistic change. (MDM)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Research, Language Variation
