Nour Efrat-Kowalsky
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nour Efrat-Kowalsky is involved.
Articles
2021 Learnability and ecological factors as motivators of language change Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 289–305 | Chapter
This chapter adopts Mufwene’s (2001) framework according to which language acquisition is a process whereby competition and selection of linguistic features from the inputs create a unique idiolect. It examines the principles of selection of a given feature over others, and the mechanisms by… read more
Culture or cognition? The evolutionary dynamics of gender assignment in the Indo-European lexicon Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Gender languages assign nouns to a category, such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common. Gender assignment is complicated and difficult to learn, as languages do not have specific rules for assigning a noun to one or the other gender. This study looks at gender assignment from the perspective… read more