What is it about?
What is the reason behind 'slurred' utterances.
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Why is it important?
Understanding how speech communities are formed and how technology impacts language use in communication.
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Our language is not a fixed entity -- through communication grammar emerges and is constantly re-shaped. There is no sudden grammatical change. Instead the changes are gradual and are highly associated with frequency of usage.
LIANG TAO
Ohio University
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This page is a summary of: Usage, media, and grammaticalization, Chinese Language and Discourse An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, June 2020, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/cld.00024.tao.
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