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Shifting social norms as a driving force for linguistic change: Struggles about language and gender in the German Bundestag
Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Samira Ochs
This paper focuses on language change based on shifting social norms, in particular with regard to the debate on language and gender. It is a recurring argument in this debate that…
Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts
Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Samira Ochs, Alexander Koplenig +2
Research on gender and language is tightly knitted to social debates on gender equality and non-discriminatory language use. Psycholinguistic scholars have made significant contrib…
Tracking, exploring and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis: cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer
Sascha Wolfer, Alexander Koplenig, Frank Michaelis +1
The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face since World War II. It does not come as a surprise that it is also having an impact on language as our…
The statistical trade-off between word order and word structure - large-scale evidence for the principle of least effort
Alexander Koplenig, Peter Meyer, Sascha Wolfer +1
Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information. While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly conveyed…
Population size predicts lexical diversity, but so does the mean sea level - why it is important to correctly account for the structure of temporal data
Alexander Koplenig, Carolin Mueller-Spitzer
In order to demonstrate why it is important to correctly account for the (serial dependent) structure of temporal data, we document an apparently spectacular relationship between p…