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physics.soc-ph2017★ 44 cited

Frequency patterns of semantic change: Corpus-based evidence of a near-critical dynamics in language change

Quentin Feltgen, Benjamin Fagard, Jean-Pierre Nadal

It is generally believed that, when a linguistic item acquires a new meaning, its overall frequency of use in the language rises with time with an S-shaped growth curve. Yet, this…