… concerned with the social mechanisms of linguistic change, and … linguistic change. The first
and more idealized, associated initially with traditional nineteenth century historical linguistics…

… the larger people’s social network, the less they … change, as it suggests that the spread of
linguistic change might depend more on people with smaller rather than larger social networks. …

… social network, and within this model we have distinguished between relatively weak and
strong network … by maximally dense and multiplex network ties linguistic change would not take …

… SOCIAL NETWORK AND LINGUISTIC FOCUSING Lesley … addresses itself is that of a
linguistic norm --specifically a non-… Questions concerning linguistic change and variation, which …

… in their convergence, stabilization, and emerging structure patterns, indicating that network
structure can influence the community's susceptibility to random linguistic changes (ie, drift). …

… of work that examined the role of social networks in the diffusion of linguistic change. Social
networks nevertheless continue to pose a puzzle for linguistic research. On the one hand, it …

… theories of linguistic change based on the ‘change from above’/ ‘… network ties and linguistic
change in terms of the relationship between the variables of social class and social network. …

… I have in this paper stressed the role of the multilingual individual, the social network, and
the communicative act in language change and the perspective of both the speaker and the …

… in the operation of the social network mechanisms that support localized linguistic codes …
the phenomenon of linguistic change. Network-oriented accounts of linguistic change have …

… In this article I explored the diffusion of half a dozen linguistic changes and their possible
social network connections in Tudor and Stuart London. By concentrating on leaders and …