Lectal contamination. Evidence from corpora and from agent-based simulation

Pijpops, Dirk

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Lectal contamination. Evidence from corpora and from agent-based simulation

Pijpops, Dirk

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corpus; lectal contamination; agent-based modelling; simulation; mixed regression modelling

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[en] This paper presents evidence from both corpora and agent-based simulation for the effect of lectal contamination. By doing so, it shows how agent-based simulation can be used as a complementary technique to corpus research in the study of language variation. Lectal contamination is an effect whereby the words that are typical of a language variety more often appear in a morphosyntactic variant typical of that same variety, even among language use from a different variety. This study looks at the Dutch partitive genitive construction, which exhibits variation between a “Netherlandic” variant with -s ending and a “Belgian” variant without -s ending. It is shown that the probability of the Belgian variant without -s increases among more “Belgian” words, in the language use of both Belgians and people from the Netherlands. Meanwhile, an agent-based simulation reveals the crucial theoretical preconditions that lead to this effect.

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Lilith - Liège, Literature, Linguistics - ULiège

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Languages & linguistics

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Pijpops, Dirk ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction

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English

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Lectal contamination. Evidence from corpora and from agent-based simulation

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13 June 2022

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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

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1384-6655

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1569-9811

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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