Francesca Colaiori
List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesca Colaiori plays a role.
Article
2020 A complex system approach to language evolution: The case of regular versus irregular verbs in English Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise, Gaeta, Livio (ed.), pp. 118–126 | Article
Regularities in natural language systems, despite their cognitive advantages in terms of storage and learnability, often coexist with exceptions, raising the question of whether and why irregularities survive. We offer a complex system perspective on this issue, focusing on the irregular past… read more