Joan Bybee
While current models of sound change distinguish between an innovation by an individual and its spread through the community (Lindblom 1990, Croft 2000, Stevens and Harrington 2014), I argue in this presentation that within a speech community the forces of imitation (Tomasello 2008), entrainment (Shockley et al. 2007), accommodation (Goldinger 1998, Harrington 2012), and cooperation […]