High functional load inhibits phonological contrast loss: A corpus studyAndrew B Wedel, Abby Kaplan2013-05-14articleCognition239 citationsclosedNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Phonetics and Phonology ResearchLinguistics and language evolutionLinguistic Variation and MorphologyAbstractNo abstract was published for this record.Citations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 239 citations exist upstream.References2010Principles of Linguistic Change1982Accents of English2001Phonology and Language Use2008Analyzing linguistic data : a practical introduction to statistics using R2001Exemplar dynamics1960The Origin of Speech1960The origin of speech.2009Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position PaperCited by2013Functional Load and the Lexicon: Evidence that Syntactic Category and Frequency Relationships in Minimal Lemma Pairs Predict the Loss of Phoneme contrasts in Language Change2022The Oxford History of Phonology2018Post-nasal devoicing and the blurring process2022John R. Firth and the London School2022Developments leading towards generative phonology2022Are neutral roots in Uyghur really neutral? Evaluating a covert phonemic contrast2015Understanding change through stability: A computational study of sound change actuation2016Momentum in Language Change