This article addresses different ways scholars conceptualize the multilingual repertoire.
Formal and functional approaches investigate crosslinguistic influence across clearly …

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-
based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable …

Languages are subject to change, but they are also stable. The linguistic knowledge of the
members of speech communities is similar, but also differs in many ways. Language use …

The overall aim of this article is to argue that the functioning of every language system is
based on a potential multilingual competence. The empirical basis for this is now broad …

This chapter introduces the main facets of the notion of entrenchment and highlights its role
as a potential mediator between linguistic and psychological approaches to the study of …

Предлагаемая вниманию читателя монография посвящена современному
междисциплинарному направлению, возникшему на стыке языкознания и …

En cierta ocasión alguien me preguntó cuál era el principal objetivo de mi investigación:
conocer la lengua o conocer al ser humano. Recuerdo que, tras una breve reflexión, afirmé …

Page 1 Dalgſave macmillan Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation Studies in
Corpus Sociophonetics Tyler Kendall Page 2 Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation …

In contemporary linguistics, both cognitive and critical approaches to language have been
elaborated in some detail. Unfortunately, the two perspectives have seldom converged …

This paper introduces a new, concept-based method for measuring variation in the use and
success of loanwords by presenting the results of a case-study on 149 English person …